...utensils are fairly worn out. To vary the figure, we may say that man is a harp of a thousand strings,—" strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long!" So long as the body is kept in good order, and all its parts duly exercised, the mind will play its...

...dissolution. Instead of wondering that we die, we have reason to wonder that we live so long ; — " that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long ;" that the water is not sooner spilt ; or we, who are crushed sooner than the moth, retain that life...

...inquiring mind dispassionately contemplates this curious structure, is it not lost in astonishment, that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long ? On what apparently trivial causes do our choicest blessings depend T How soon may the derangement...

...breaking down, we are led to exclaim with Dr. Watts, when referring to the body, that it is indeed " Strange, that a harp of a thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." We have come to regard man as a perverted being, the world over. We leave the matter of " original...

...lines of Dr. Watts are never perceived until we have obtained some acquaintance with the human frame. " Our life contains a thousand strings, And dies if one be gone ; Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." Strange, indeed ! Is it chance, or is it Providence,...

...principles of health, either from ignorance or wilfnlness, instead of appearing strange, it is rather "strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long." As pulmonary consumption is not confined to densely populated localities, but prevails among the population...

...principles of health, either from ignorance or wilfnlness, instead of appearing strange, it is rather "strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long." As pulmonary consumption is not confined to densely populated localities, but prevails among the population...

...life is set in motion. "A plank, (says some writer) separates the voyager from eternity :" — so " Our life contains a thousand strings, And dies if one be gone; Strange, that a harp of thousand strings, Should keep in tune so long." The forecastle-man, before referred to, represents...

...through all the ground To push us to the tomb, And fierce diseases wait around, To hurf^nortals home. Our life contains a thousand strings, And dies if one be gone, Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." All who died in England during 1876 were the victims...

...cessation of every pain that one more had gone. Sometimes he exclaimed, " Fearfully and wonderfully made!" "Strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long !" He took his tea as usual, though he could retain nothing but tee, for the blessing of which he often...