From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad : Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, " An honest man's the noblest work of God ; "* And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage... Washington News Letter - Page 3001912Full view - About this book
| 1926 - 450 pages
...lustre, by paying to his profession and his professional brethren the higher tribute of a blameless life. "Princes and lords are but the breath of kings; An honest man's the noblest work of God." The higher influence and full efficiency of any profession must to a great extent depend upon... | |
| United States. Congress House - 1944 - 106 pages
...conscientious and distinguished Members of this august body. From lives like these, America's greatness springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:...breath of kings; "An honest man's the noblest work of God." They are gone but not forgotten. Their influences will live as their spirits will live on and... | |
| 1918 - 596 pages
...UPSTANDING Such Scottish types as this village blacksmith inspired Burns to philosophize: "Princes ahd lords are but the breath of kings; An honest man's the noblest work of God." £-0 Photograph by W. R«d "I AM, INDEED, SIR, A SURGEON TO OLD SHOES" " Long may the hardy sons... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 pages
...also reared a monument to his memory, on which they inscribed the lines — " Princes and lords'are but the breath of kings, An honest man's the noblest work of God." CA DAVIS. an& f entlimlg* THE beloved Apostle John was in four remarkable ways honoured above... | |
| James D. Smart - 1954 - 212 pages
...husband prays: Hope ' springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad." Family religion two hundred years ago was not always so beautiful and impressive as this. It could... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, (1. 77—80) 20 God!" (1. 163-166) 21 O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,... | |
| John Muir, Terry Gifford - 1996 - 940 pages
...Hays. Happy, Godt'ul homes; again and again while with you I repeated to myself those lines of Burns: "From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, that makes her loved at home, revered abroad." Don't forget me and if in this changing world you or yours need anything in it that I can give, be... | |
| Peter B. Waite - 1994 - 366 pages
...argument: From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad, Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man's the noblest work of God." 31 In the lecture halls of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St Andrew's this came to be a democracy... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...English. From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noble work of God:' And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The Cottage leaves the Palace far behind:... | |
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