 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pages
...infirmities. " Alas I" said he, observing the large flight of steps which lead into the palace of Norwich, " I am come to these steps at a time of life when I can neither go up them nor down them with safety !'' The diocese was not to be long benefited by his piety and zeal. Even the charge which he composed... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 pages
...he first saw the steps which led up to his palace, 'Alas ! I am come to these steps at a time of my life when I can neither go up them nor down them with safety.' Did you ever notice how beautifully he affords you an insight into his inner self in his Preface to... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1878 - 434 pages
...appointment to accomplish much. " Alas ! " he exclaimed, as he entered the old palace doorway, " I have come to these steps at a time of life when I can neither go up them nor down them with safety." 2 He retained his see only about two years, a circumstance often forgotten when mention is made of... | |
 | Alexander Hugh Hore - 1886 - 538 pages
...to the Bishopric only two years. " Alas," he exclaimed, as he entered the Episcopal Palace, " I have come to these steps at a time of life when I can neither go up them nor down them with safety." He died in 1792, in his sixty -second year. J Stoughton, vol. ii. 63. The epithet " Methodistical"... | |
 | Robert Sangster Rait - 1910 - 394 pages
...exclaimed on reaching the large flight of steps on the west front by which the house was then entered : " Alas, I am come to these steps at a time of life when...can neither go up them nor down them with safety." At his chaplain's instance he was persuaded to walk every morning in the garden, but increasing illness... | |
 | 1835
...that on approaching the flight of steps which lead to the Episcopal Palace in Norwich, he observed, ' Alas, I am come to these steps at a time of life,...can neither go up them, nor down them with safety ! ' These infirmities increased so rapidly, as seriously to interfere with the discharge of the duties... | |
 | A. D. Bayne - 1873 - 674 pages
...the palace of Norwich, observing the large flight of steps by which it is entered, he exclaimed, " Alas ! I am come to these steps at a time of life when I can neither go up or down them with safety." He was even unable to deliver the charge which he had prepared for his primary... | |
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Palace there is entered by a large flight of steps ; on which he observed one day, " Alas ! I am come to " these steps, at a time of life, when I can neither go " up them nor down them with safety. 
