| Robert Browning - 1888 - 326 páginas
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered " Yes " Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, v This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here— should he need the... | |
| Karl Pearson - 1888 - 458 páginas
...craving for knowledge : — Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant? -:-. * # « That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. HISTORY. Alle wahre Geschichte hat uberall zuerst einen religiosen Zweck gehabt, und ist von religiosen... | |
| George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 534 páginas
..." a man whom to have known and loved is a lifelong possession ; to have lost, a lifelong regret." " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." APPENDIX I. Reprinted from " The Chronicles of the Collegiate Church or Free Chapel of All Saints,... | |
| Abraham Willard Jackson - 1889 - 36 páginas
...to be scaled, and these are for you. There is indeed a pathos that overhangs all great endeavor. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit ; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit." Yes, thus it is; and yet... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 páginas
...earth's failure: " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered " Yes ! Hence with life's pale lure!" That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Lofty designs must close in like effects: Loftily lying, Leave him — still loftier than the world... | |
| Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - 1889 - 428 páginas
...the search for God as' the only reality : and while he was still eagerly following the search, — " This high man, With a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." In the last year of his life he received a call to become the president of Princeton College. The call... | |
| Alexander Viets Griswold Allen - 1889 - 426 páginas
...search for God as the only reality : and while he was still eagerly following the search, — " Thia high man, With a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." In the last year of his life he received a call to become the president of Princeton College. The call... | |
| Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 páginas
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ? " he answered " Yes. Hence with life's pale lure ! " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That has the world here — should he need the next. Let the world mind him ! This, throws... | |
| Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 394 páginas
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
| Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher - 1890 - 414 páginas
...gathered. The task was too hard for him. None the less does he deserve immortal honour for attempting it. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it." Gustavus had got a firm foot in the Palatinate, in which very few places were left over to the Spaniards,*... | |
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