| 1910 - 862 páginas
...task in most acts of rescue. Under the impulse the feeblest becomes equal to the ordeal: — So close is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The Youth replies, I can. THE NEW ERA IN SOUTH AFRICA. "It is officially announced... | |
| 1901 - 578 páginas
...Society for 1857. FR DAVIES. Hawthorn, Black Rock. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9 th S. viii. 85).— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," Tho youtn replies, " I can !" ' Voluntaries,' Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is oft the... | |
| 1901 - 688 páginas
...Society for 1857. FR DAVIES. Hawthorn, Black Rock. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9th S. viii. 85).— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, "Thou muet," The youth replies, " I can !" ' Voluntaries,' Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is oft the... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 páginas
...heaven upon earth for ourselves and for all human kind, if we can begin each day by saying with Emerson, ''So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The Youth replies, 'I can!'" 99 DISCUSSION. JAMES H. ECOB: My excuse for talking... | |
| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 páginas
...reasons are profound, they are also self-asserting. When presented, you say, — I 6now them already. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies. / can." This inner voice, declaring for God and duty, is often hushed,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 páginas
...benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold,... | |
| Anne Mercier - 1869 - 278 páginas
...Source of light and truth and being. The prize was Christabel's. CHAPTER IX. "READY? AY, READY!" " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " RW EMERSON. THERE is no weather, however bright,... | |
| Book - 1871 - 366 páginas
...benign, Speed heavenly messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, thou must, The heart replies, / can. The God that worketh high and wise, Nor pauses in his plan,... | |
| 1872 - 900 páginas
...were ten times slain, Crowns him victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. UQ TQ tP low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean. THE SEA. BEHOLD the Sea, "The opaline, the plentiful and strong,... | |
| 1872 - 642 páginas
...following verse, by Mr. Emerson, contains the ' pith ' o all the Unitarian sermons ever preached : — ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." ' " Dr. Sears asks : ' Has this writer heard the fifteen... | |
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