 | 1791 - 610 Seiten
...charged at the battle of Edge-hill, made this fliort prayer, * О Lord, thou knoweft how bufy I muft be this day : if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.' * To the cour fe of prayers for a week are added, Prayers and "Thankigivings for particular Occafions,... | |
 | Jabez (uncle.) - 1799 - 242 Seiten
...that used by Lord Ashley before the * Psalm xxxvii. 25. battle of Edgehill. It ran thus: " 0 Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." I used to think it a beautiful petition, knowing how apt I was to forget God ; and I think so still.... | |
 | 1801 - 446 Seiten
...ASTLEY. LORD ASTLEY, before he charged at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer: — " O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not Thou forget me!" " There were certainly," Rays Hume, " much longer prayers made in the parliamentary army ; but I doubt... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 544 Seiten
...Astley who, before he charged at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer, OLord! tfiott tnowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thouforeet me. And with that rose up, and cry'd March on boys ! Warwick, p. 229. There were certainly... | |
 | George Horne - 1808 - 320 Seiten
...196. 8. Lord Astley, before he charged, at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer—" O Lord, thou " knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget " thee, do not thou forget me !" There were certainly, says Hume, much longer prayers said in the parliamentary army; but I doubt... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 544 Seiten
...Astley who, before he charged at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer, 0 Lord ! t/jou knowcst ho<w busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not tbou forget me. And with that rose up, and cry'd March on toys! Warwick, p. 229. There were certainly... | |
 | Sir Philip Warwick - 1813 - 506 Seiten
...pious, short, and soldierly prayer : for he lifted up his eyes and hands to heaven, saying, " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me :" and with that rose up, crying out, " March on, boys !" for the king had given order that until the... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 Seiten
...8. Lord Astley, before he charged, at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer — " O Lord, thou " knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget "thee, do not thou forget me!" There were certainly, says Hume, much longer prayers said in the parliamentary army ; but I doubt if... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 Seiten
...(fought between Charles I. and the rebellious Parliamentary forces,) made this short prayer: "O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me." LORD, is IT I ? Lord, is it I that shall betray The blessed Saviour, who for me hath died? Or cease... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 Seiten
...parliamentary army, but it may be doubted whether there were so good a one. It was simply this : ' O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ! If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.' He now concluded his brave and irreproachable career, by a saying not less to be remembered by the enemy's... | |
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O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me," And with that rose up and cried, "March on, boys! 
