| 1901 - 578 pages
...different from those quoted by PERTINAX at the first reference :— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, Brave youth replies, I can. NOTES ON BOOKS, 4c. M. HvAary of the Conquest of Mexico. By William H.... | |
| 1901 - 688 pages
...different from those quoted by PERTIXAX at the first refereuoe :— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, Brave youth replies, I can. M. NOTES ON BOOKS, 4o. History of the, Con/jiifit of Mexico. By William... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...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 so much here is this text of the Scripture... | |
| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...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, often unheeded, and so at last... | |
| 1885 - 676 pages
...to repudiate that doctrine. I give you a finer and a nobler motto — So nigh is glory to our duty, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers low "Thou must," The soul replies, " I can." And if I am to speak to you about duties, I will mention one which is too often... | |
| 1897 - 678 pages
...be known," after the Truth manner, in lines like these? "So ni).rh is grandeur to our dust. So noar is God to man, When Duty whispers low, thou must, The youth replies, I can." " Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...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, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
| Anne Mercier - 1869 - 278 pages
...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, on which the Greyfriars' churchyard in... | |
| 1872 - 648 pages
...stay at home and repeat it, and need go to church no more : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." That means, we take it, in plain prose, — God is a present help, and enables every man to... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dost, harger was By the flash of his eye, and his nostril's play He seemed to the / can. THE SEA. BEHOLD the Sea, •The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose... | |
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