They were men of present valor, stalwart old iconoclasts; Unconvinced by axe or gibbet that all virtue was the Past's: But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free. Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee... The Review of Reviews - Página 296editado por - 1892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| First Church of Christ - 1907 - 174 páginas
...the Past's; But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free, Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The...that great Impulse which drove them across the sea. "" New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward... | |
| 1910 - 532 páginas
...the Past's ; But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free, Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The...that great Impulse which drove them across the sea. They have rights who dare maintain them; we are traitors to our sires, Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
| Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 936 páginas
...the Past's; But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free. Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The...that great Impulse which drove them across the sea. They have rights who dare maintain them; we are traitors to our sires. Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
| Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury - 1912 - 634 páginas
...the Past's ; But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free, Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The...that great Impulse which drove them across the sea. They have rights who dare maintain them ; we are traitors to our sires, Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
| New England Society in the City of New York - 1912 - 276 páginas
...the Past's; But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free, Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The...that great Impulse which drove them across the sea. " "That great impulse" — there is the heart of the matter. All the richness and possibility of our... | |
| George Aaron Barton - 1912 - 248 páginas
...dead. It must be remembered that even in the best of communities it is easy to hoard our faith "In mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The rude grasp of that great impulse" which drove our ancestors to heroic deeds and to sublime experience. The hardest of all things to perpetuate is... | |
| Wisconsin Teachers' Association - 1916 - 322 páginas
...work. Lowell has put it, "We make their creed our jailor, Thinking that hath set us free. Hording it in mouldy parchments, While our tender spirits flee The...rude grasp of that great impulse Which drove them beyond the sea." the minds of the teachers to the great impulses that not only have moved but that... | |
| Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 342 páginas
...the Past's; But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free, > Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The...that great Impulse which drove them across the sea. They have rights who dare maintain them; we are traitors to our sires, Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
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