 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 pages
...Kant's sublime maxim, " Duty the measure of ability, not ability the measure of duty : " — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " I find no valid ground of moral obligation but the inborn sense... | |
 | 1888 - 248 pages
...repentances. The life of God and the life of man are all interwoven in the web of human experiences. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " There is but one way of separating the life of God from the souls... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1888 - 676 pages
...consciousness, and fails to inspire. Emerson was better than his philosophy, when he wrote : " So near is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " How different from this is the writing of George Eliot, with... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1888 - 72 pages
...the man, whose boyhood knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean" ! How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 232 pages
...pieces written to encourage the young to enlist for the war, contain this noble stanza— " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, TIion must, The youth replies, I can." Emerson's earnest feeling on the civil war comes out in his... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - 1888 - 848 pages
...as if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years," as this in " Voluntaries " : " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thmt must, The youth replies, / can." Matthew Arnold has pronounced his essays "the most important... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1889 - 322 pages
...a watch-maker. It had a very poor movement, by the way, and a pinchbeck case." H. HEINE, 4. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, "I can." EMERSON. 5. " Some people," says Alphonse Karr, " are always finding... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1889 - 358 pages
...beyond. Hours are golden links, God's token, Reaching heaven ; but, one by one, DUTY. RW EMERSON. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must" The youth replies, "/ can." TIME. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. IF Time be of all things the most precious,... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, James Vila Blake, Frederick Lucian Hosmer - 1880 - 280 pages
...we are not left to stand alone : All things work together for good to those that obey God. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can ! [Emerson.] Gloria. 1. Glory be to the Father, Al 2. He is eternal... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1889 - 218 pages
...personified (k). 12. The pronoun 7 and the interjection 0 (I). (a) Hitch your wagon to a star. (i) So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' (c) (Direct) Remember the maxim, ' Honesty is the best policy.'... | |
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. 
