 Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.  Poems - Side 126av Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1857 - 594 sider
...spoken now in warning and in mercy, to condemn the anti-Christian policy of England towards India. " Though the mills of GOD grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small," — and who can deny they are VOL. xix. 3 q grinding fiercely now. " Them that honour Me, I will honour,... | |
 | 1914 - 1066 sider
...if you neglect or sin against it the punishment is sure. Nemesis comes slowly but it comes surely. Though the mills of God grind slowly Yet they grind exceeding small. Whenever an individual or a class or a nation has sinned against love, has it not paid? Has it not... | |
 | Hercules Robinson - 1858 - 278 sider
...shopkeeeper trying to cheat them both, we are sure that the one will not prosper, nor the other grow rich. " Though the mills of God grind slowly yet they grind,...patience he stands waiting with exactness Grinds He all." But enough of Ireland and of Irish digression, and to conclude my biographical sketch. I then applied... | |
 | 1860 - 452 sider
...bloodshed, and whose whole career is a course of duplicity and crime unparalleled in the pages of history. " Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind...He stands waiting, "With exactness grinds He all." We hope next to see the robber's hand extended in the direction of the Rhine. Europe, like many an... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 sider
...and courtesy not always are combined ; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. BETBIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torcli's fire, Ha ! how soon they all are silent... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1859 - 350 sider
...eye in the chapel. And knowing what he had been to them, I know that it was true. CHAPTER THE FIFTH. RETRIBUTION. " THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly,...they grind exceeding small ; Though -with patience stands He waiting, with exactness grinds He all." FEW men could, I imagine, pass two years of the most... | |
 | Ulick Joseph Bourke - 1860 - 474 sider
...tuiftliijc b]O3AlcAf ceA|tc tjA i;-<t)eA ; Be]b ?о\- '5 A infrie b||teAC, 'fi)j SAI) j?aé — Lines 195-6. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience lie stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all." — Longfellow's Poelic Aphorisms. MA lAbAijt lei... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 sider
...grind slowly, yet they grind exeeeding small ; Though with patienee he stands waiting, with exaetness grinds he all. TRUTH. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a toreh's fire, Ha ! how soon they all are silent ! Thus Truth silenees the liar. RHYMES. If perhaps... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1871 - 940 sider
...nations and whole races ere now, to powder. Very terrible, though very calm, is outraged Nature. " Though the mills of God grind Slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. Though llu sit, ana wait with patience, "With exactness grinds He all." It is, I believe, one of the most... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 sider
...Intelligence and courtesy not always are combii.ed ; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. RETRIBUTION Though the mills of God grind slowly,...torch's fire, Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences the liar. RHYMES If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound Dot well in strangers'... | |
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