| Aubrey De Vere - 1887 - 434 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 Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove bene-i4S f actors i " Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power and deity, Vet in themselves are nothing." The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As D0's= man had... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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,...down their colors and from enemies became friends, so do disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors. " Winds blow and waters... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...for good ! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. Winds blow, and waters roll, 10 X w w \p{l} One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free.... | |
| Bernard Bosanquet - 1918 - 268 pages
...antithesis, whose sides the poets, the deepest seers, have expressed with striking force. One assures us that Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power and Deity. But in another we read : Streams will not curb their pride The good man not to entomb, Nor lightnings... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...there! What mightiness for evil and for good! Even so doth God protect us if we be Virtuous and wise. ion, I think, indeed, are very indifferently suited...the end; and this I shall endeavor to show you be One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only, the nations shall be great and free.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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,...their colors, and from enemies became friends, so do disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offence, poverty, prove benefactors. "Winds blow and waters... | |
| Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1921 - 332 pages
...thing, and you shall have the power; but they who do not the thing have not the power." "As the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached,...down their colors and from enemies became friends, so do disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offense, poverty, prove benefactors." "Our strength grows out... | |
| william worsworth - 1923 - 498 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.... | |
| John Cann Bailey - 1923 - 304 pages
...Do we believe, he asks, that there is a Godhead in Nature and in the soul of man ? Then, if we do, Winds blow, and waters roll, Strength to the brave, and Power and Deity. A man of this sort could feel nothing but contempt when he saw Napoleon's English worshippers hurrying... | |
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