 | William Smith Porter - 1663 - 196 pages
...whom were come to her funeral, say, ' Here lies my dear, faithful, pious, prudent, prayerful wife. I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me? And so he followed her to the grave, with lamentations beyond those with which Abraham deplored his... | |
 | Sarah Maria Fry - Children - 1799 - 188 pages
...behold the bright home already prepared for her child; it was not hers to say with believing trust, " I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me ; " no, nothing was before her but the one terrible certainty that she should lose Ada ; the terrible... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pages
...of the Lord" (Job i. 21). "Now she is dead, wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring her back again 1 I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me." Let us for a few moments strive to catch a few glimpses of the bright side of the death of young children.... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 602 pages
...me, that she may live ? But, now she is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring her back again ? I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me. Besides which, Mr. N. had a favourite sentiment, which I have heard him express in different ways,... | |
 | John Scott - 1822 - 472 pages
...She has got free from all that I long to be delivered from; and has attained all I am longing for. I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me. — You mention the supposed loss of your- sweet babes. Whilst I pray God to preserve them to you,... | |
 | John Scott - 1824 - 726 pages
...has got free from all that I long to be delivered from ; and has attained all that I am longing for. I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me. — You mention the supposed loss of your sweet babes. Whilst I pray God to preserve them to you, and... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 294 pages
...when his child was smitten :— " She is dead. Wherefore should I mourn ? Can I bring her back again ? I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me." Bowing to the clergyman, he said— " She, whom you seek, is not here. She arose ere the sun looked... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1824 - 160 pages
...me, that she may live ! But, now she is dead, wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring her back again ? I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me. Besides which, Mr. N. had a favourite sentiment, which I have heard him express in different ways,... | |
 | Fireside scenes - 1825 - 920 pages
...my soul to this world of corruption. My sweet child — my gentle Mary — was gone for ever ! — 'I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me!' — and this thought consoled me in the midst of my sorrows. "The sum which I had acquired by my indefatigable... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 476 pages
...me, that she may line ? But, now she is dead, wherefore should I fast ? Can I bring her back again? I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me. Besides which, Mr. N. had a favourite sentiment, which I have heard him express in different ways,... | |
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Cavallo, in Italy, April 20th, 1822, aged five years and three months. ' I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me. 
