| Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 pages
...too small — too feeble — too poor to be of service. Think of this, and act. Life is no trifle. If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work...efface it ; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust. But if we work upon immortal minds — if we imbue them with high principles, with the just... | |
| 1911 - 458 pages
...be done quickly) : 60, 36, 51, 66, 123, 312, 12, 90, 24, 30. Tuesday MORNING EXERCISES To be read : If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work...upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow-men, we engrave... | |
| United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 766 pages
...old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Pope. If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work...efface it ; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust ; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear... | |
| United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1885 - 840 pages
...: Be not the first i •;, whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Pope. If we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work...will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust ; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbne them with principles, with the just fear... | |
| 1886 - 636 pages
...teacher, with a heart full of sympathy with the little ones it is far different. Daniel Webster said, "If we work upon marble it will perish; if we work...will efface it; if we rear temples they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 332 pages
...When pain cannot bless Heaven quits us in despair 3. If at first you don't succeed try try again 4. If we work upon marble it will perish; if we work...will efface it; if we rear temples they will crumble into dust.— Webster 5. If you would be pungent be brief—Southey 6. Though deep yet clear 7. If... | |
| 1891 - 382 pages
...inventor or benefactor of the human race in some way.' "Finally, in the language of an eminent statesman: 'If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work...will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue them with right principles, with the just... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1887 - 104 pages
...When pain cannot bless Heaven quits us in despair 3. If at first you don't succeed try try again 4. If we work upon marble it will perish ; if we work...will efface it ; if we rear temples they will crumble into dust. — Webster 5. If you would be pungent be brief — Southey 6.' Though deep yet clear 7.... | |
| John Thomas Dale - 1887 - 650 pages
...power of Him in whose name he speaks, he may hope for, and realize a blessed ministry. ©HE (QEAGHEI^. "If we work upon marble, it will. perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust. But if we work upon immortal minds, — if we imbue... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of the State of New York - 1889 - 402 pages
...proportions the beauty of architecture, as true measures that of harmony and music. It has been said, if we work upon marble, it will perish ; if we work...brass, time will efface it ; if we rear temples, they moulder and crumble into dust : but if we work upon Immortal minds ; if we imbue them with principles,... | |
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