Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. Poems - Page 126by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850Full view - About this book
| 1857 - 594 pages
...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,... | |
| American essays - 1914 - 1066 pages
...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 - Madeira (Madeira Islands) - 1858 - 278 pages
...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... | |
| Women - 1860 - 452 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Irish language - 1860 - 474 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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