 | 1828
...his part at an appointed private music-meeting ; and to justify that practice, he would observe, ' Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it.' In one of his walks to Salisbury, he overtook a gentleman, to whom after some conversation he said,... | |
 | 1810 - 594 pages
...play his part, at an appointed private music-meeting; and, to justify this practice, he would often say, " Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates, and sets rules to it." And, as his desire to enjoy his heaven upon earth drew him twice every week to Salisbury, so his walks... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 552 pages
...play his part, at an appointed private music-meeting; and, to justify this practice, he would often say, " Religion does not banish mirth, but only " moderates and sets rules to it." And his constant public prayers never made him to tteglect his own private devotions, nor those prayers... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 596 pages
...play his part, at an appointed private music-meeting; and, to justify this practice, he would often say, " Religion does not banish mirth, but only " moderates and sets rules to it.'' In one of his walks to Salisbury he overtook a gentleman, to whom, after a proper salutation, he said,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1817 - 740 pages
...shirring wi h grace in the heart, and the inward melody, with which God is c-uefly pleased. would often say, " Religion does not banish mirth". " but only moderates and sets rules to it." And as his desire to enjoy his heaven upon earth drew him t \vice every week to Salisbury, so his walks... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1832 - 348 pages
...play his part at an appointed private music meeting ; and, to justify this practice, he would often say, " Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it." And as his desire to enjoy his heaven upon earth drew him twice every week to Salisbury, so his walks... | |
 | 1832 - 348 pages
...play his part at an appointed private music meeting ; and, to justify this practice, he would often say, " Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it." And as his desire to enjoy his heaven upon earth drew him twice every week to Salisbury, so his walks... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...usually sing, and play his part, at an appointed private music-meeting ; and to justify this practice, he would say, — ' Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it.' " In one of his walks to Salisbury, he saw a poor man, with a poorer horse, that was fallen under his... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1834 - 408 pages
...frequently spent at a private music-meeting in the same city, a custom he justified by saying, that religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it. Walton relates an anecdote of one of these walks to Salisbury. When Herbert was some way on his journey,... | |
 | 1836 - 574 pages
...his soul, and was his heaven upon earth :" and, to justify his practice, he would often say, " that religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it." Many anecdotes arc told of his piety and charity ; and, indeed, from the period that he took orders,... | |
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That his time spent in prayer and cathedral music elevated his soul, and was his heaven upon earth." But before his return thence to Bemerton, he would usually sing and play his part at an appointed private music-meeting; and, to justify this practice,... 
