 It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.  The biblical museum. Old Testament - Page 227by James Comper Gray - 1878Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - 1883 - 130 pages
...to taste things sweet, but, to do noble and true thing» and vindicate himself under God'.s heavens a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly...him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kiudlus into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation,... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1883 - 722 pages
...lias hi^ 'honour of a soldier,' different from drill regulations and the shilling a day. It is nut to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a Clod-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him tin1 way of doing that, and the dullest... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1883 - 426 pages
...spirits, Purged and refined, shake off that clog of Human frailty." | ARLYLE says man's function " is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things." To be a man is to be manly, and to be manly is to do nothing mean or untrue. To be manly, it is needful... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1887 - 592 pages
...sugar-plums of any kind in this world or the next. In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. ... It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way to do that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is seduced... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 192 pages
...to be shot, has his " honor of a soldier," different from drill-regulations and the shilling a day. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong him greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...to be shot, has his ' honour of a soldier,' different from dr,ll-regulations and the shilling a day. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of do,ng that, the dullest clay-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be... | |
 | thomas carlyle - 1888
...to be shot, has his ' honour of a soldier,' different from drill-regulations and the shilling a day. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...under God's Heaven as a god-made Man, that the poorest sou of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudgc kindles into a hero.... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...thereof find blessedness." He is sounding the same note with Carlyle, who says: "It is not to taste things but to do noble and true things and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God made man, for which the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that and the... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1892 - 592 pages
...the next. In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. ... It is not to taste swe^t tilings, but to do noble and true things and vindicate himself...poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way to do that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is seduced... | |
 | Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 328 pages
...illustrate the order of words appropriate to each:— house was great." "Silver and gold have I none." "It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things . . . that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs." Arrangement of Substantive and Adjective. — In the... | |
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