...presently asleep again. You arc illnatured and cross with those who disturb your repose. " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," is your cry. Perhaps you say with the little child, " Don't wake me out of my beautiful dream." For...

...more disgusting, than to have to do with girls, or young women, who lounge in bed: " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little " more folding of the hands to sleep." SOLOMON knew them well: he had, I dare say, seen the breakfast cooling, carriages and horses and servants...

...dawn ; and what moro natural than that she should say, There is time enough; meanwhile, "a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ?" As she was sinking back again into unconsciousness, suddenly, with the brightness and power of lightning,...

...to foster indolence and indifference, nor to encourage n drowsy and perfunctory discharge of duty, " a little, more slumber, a little more, folding of the hands to sleep." It rather gives forth the warning voice with no uncertain sound, "Awake, thou that sleepest!" "He up...

...dawn, and what more natural than that she should say, There is time enough; meanwhile, "a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep " ? As she was sinking back again into unconsciousness, suddenly, with the brightness and power of...

...draws back from the yoke ; yet I stretch myself upon the bed of sloth, and cry out for "a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." Thus does my corrupt heart plead for its own indulgence against the convictions of my better judgment....

...let alone in that antechamber alike of Death and Life — Repose — a little longer. " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." When, under such circumstances, some importunate sound compels our reluctant attention, we are long...

...beds, and say among themselves, " It is all a delusion — the morning is still distant; let us enjoy a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep " ! Reader, we adjure you let it not bo said of you in the words of an uninspired writer of old, "...

...away ! The sinner, like the sluggard, arouses himself for a moment to say, " A little more sleep, and a little more slumber ; a little more folding of the hands to sleep." Those who prefer present ease to future happiness may say this once too often. You may refuse now to...

...rebuke the sluggard who, when the sun summons him to labor, pleads for indulgence: "Yet a little mere sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep. How long wilt thou sleep, 0 sluggard, when wilt thou rouse out of thy • sleep ? Go to the ant, consider...