| Richard Metcalf - 1883 - 226 pages
...everything to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm ; but, as the royal armies sent out against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their...as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors." Like a decree of the Medes and Persians which changeth not is this immutable law by which spirit awakens... | |
| 1883 - 666 pages
...far beyond his years ; on the other hand, it is true that difficulty is essential to full energy. " Winds blow and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and power, and deity." But if we believe that God is the author of this universe, that His wisdom comprehends, and His love... | |
| William Wordsworth, Richard Chenevix Trench - 1884 - 304 pages
...mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blows, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power, and Deity ; Yet in themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free.... | |
| George Haven Putnam - 1885 - 424 pages
...like fire turns every thing to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached,...offence, poverty, prove benefactors : — " Winds blovr and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power and deity, Vet in themselves are nothing." The... | |
| 1885 - 686 pages
...there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 pages
...there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and power, and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that, by the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free.... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
...there ! What mightiness for evil and for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave,...and Power, and Deity ; Yet in themselves are nothing ! One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free.... | |
| Frank Hutchinson, Francis Myers - 1885 - 306 pages
...times was he who, meditating on warlike perils, and on the mightiness of his nation, said : — * * Winds blow and waters roll. Strength to the brave and power and Deity, Yet in themselves are nothing t One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free.... | |
| 1859 - 1128 pages
...teacher whose mingled gentleness and strictness are never taken off, lessons always set for us to learn. "Winds blow, and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power, and Deity." An infant is laid in its little grave, blighted in the bud— a life seeming in vain. Not such the... | |
| William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...like fire, turns everything to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm ; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached,...of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove ber-e-ws factors : " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power and deity, Yet in... | |
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