 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...that is written in "Aristocracy," in Lectures and Biographical Sketches. Page 251, note I. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. Best befriended of the God He who, in evil times, Warned by an inward voice, Heeds not the darkness... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...times slain, Crowns him victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, . Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOME of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1877 - 252 pages
...I ever believe that any boy, in this or in any school, has cause to say that he has failed. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to Man, When Duty whispers, low, " Thau must" The youth replies " lean." 2. But, secondly, while you work, you must remember that you... | |
 | dame Sophia Gertrude Wintz - 1878 - 230 pages
...Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace Divine To hearts in sloth and ease ; — So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low 'THOU MUST,' The Soul replies ' I CAN ! ' " —EMERSON. II. SOME of us who are lovers of mountain and moorland scenery... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...appeal had been made not to their selfishness and envy, but to their honor and their truth. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low Thou must, The heart replies I can." But if the preachers have of late been more reluctant than formerly to enter... | |
 | William Salter - 1880 - 164 pages
...the Rocky Mountains for the American Home Missionary Society. BY WILLIAM SALTER. So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. — Etnerson. .^BURLINGTON, IOWA: JAMES LOVE. COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO: MRS. SB PlCKETT. 1880. For... | |
 | 1883 - 684 pages
...harmony. The poet expressed this harmony from which arises the power to obey, when he said : " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When...duty whispers low, ' Thou must!' The youth replies, 'lean!'" The perfect harmony of body and spirit knows no ill-health ; all sickness is sin, the effect... | |
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...habitation and a name. —Shakespeare: ''Midsummer Night's Dream" Act v, Sc. I. LIX.—HEROISM.* So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When...Duty whispers low, ''Thou must" The youth replies, "/ can." —Ralph Waldo Emerson. LX.—OBEDIENCE. THREE roots bear up Dominion: Knowledge, Will,—... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 pages
...moonlight after storm Mingles dark shadows into gentleness. NP Willis. April 23. April 24. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Tliou must, The youth replies, I can. RWEmersm. He would have wiped with smiles away The tears from... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1880 - 180 pages
...are written up in the Hall of Marlborough College: — " So close is glory to our dust, So near 13 God to man — When duty whispers low, 'thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " It does not wait for the reasoning powers to be developed, but comes right in upon the boy himself,... | |
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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. 
