| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 188 pages
...for the youthful moot court and a prefatory letter of apology. CHAPTER NINTH. WILLIAM WIBT'S BOYHOOD. "Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place.'* — Longfellow. WHEN William Wirt was fourteen years old, he left school. His small patrimony was expended,... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 184 pages
...of apology. CHAPTER NINTH. WILLIAM WIRT'S BOYHOOD. "Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a tinu and ample base ; And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place," — Longfellow. WHEN William Wirt was fourteen years old, he left school. His small patrimony was expended,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing...With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 pages
...; Leave no yawning gap between; Think not, because no man sees, Such things will remain unseen. 5. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 388 pages
...well, Both the unseen and the seen, Make the house where God may dwell Beautiful, entire, and clean. " Build today then strong and sure, With a firm and...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place." CHAPTER V. CHRISTIAN UNION. " They stand aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which have been rent... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 pages
...inquirers. Thus, Longfellow, in one of his " Poems by the Fireside," entitled " The Builders :" — " Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place." are but darkling pilgrims, iron-shod indeed for the journey of life, but unguided by any light greater... | |
| 1855 - 784 pages
...betwcen ; Think not, because no man sces, Such things will remain unscen. t, 6 TRACT-DISnUEtTION. " Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secare Shall to-morrow find its place." In order that our influence upon others, espeeially upon those... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow... | |
| 1856 - 606 pages
...work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house where gods may dwell Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing...to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain N To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing...ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow finds its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast... | |
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