 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 páginas
...versification of Kant's sublime maxim, " Duty the measure of ability, not ability the measure of duty : " — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " I find no valid ground of moral obligation but the... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 848 páginas
..."seemed as if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years," as this in " Voluntaries " : " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thmt must, The youth replies, / can." Matthew Arnold has pronounced his essays "the most important... | |
 | 1888 - 466 páginas
...normal man is two-thirds will.— Schopenhauer. Politeness is benevolence in trifles.— Macaulay. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," The youth replies, "I can."— Anon. "Alas! it is not when we sleep soft and wake... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1888 - 676 páginas
...consciousness, and fails to inspire. Emerson was better than his philosophy, when he wrote : " So near is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " How different from this is the writing of George Eliot,... | |
 | 1888 - 538 páginas
...Spirit are the Father and are not the Father. The need of a mediator had been deeply felt ; but '• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, " So near is God to man," that the mediator himself becomes a god, becomes God himself; till heart and mind, striking through... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1889 - 358 páginas
...eagerly beyond. Hours are golden links, God's token, Reaching heaven ; but, one by one, DUTY. RW EMERSON. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must" The youth replies, "/ can." TIME. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. IF Time be of all things the... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1889 - 322 páginas
...existence of a watch-maker. It had a very poor movement, by the way, and a pinchbeck case." H. HEINE, 4. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, "I can." EMERSON. 5. " Some people," says Alphonse Karr, " are... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1889 - 218 páginas
...personified (k). 12. The pronoun 7 and the interjection 0 (I). (a) Hitch your wagon to a star. (i) So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' (c) (Direct) Remember the maxim, ' Honesty is the best... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, James Vila Blake, Frederick Lucian Hosmer - 1880 - 280 páginas
...[Fichte.] And we are not left to stand alone : All things work together for good to those that obey God. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can ! [Emerson.] Gloria. 1. Glory be to the Father, Al 2. He is... | |
 | 1890 - 168 páginas
...air 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. EMERSON ( Voluntaries). BY the rude bridge that arched the... | |
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