 | William Jones (theologian.) - 1879 - 516 страници
...have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." — Longfettow. IV. The cedar grows by ceaseless activities. The sap, which is the life of the tree,... | |
 | John Towle Marriott - 1879 - 204 страници
...Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels rise. 3 The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 4 Standing on what too long we bore With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 страници
...119 : 11. Josh. 1 : 8. Psa. 1:1,!. Psa. 94 : 12, W. ROBERT DICK: fi. PTUDY f OR YoUj^q CHAPTER I. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." R. SMILES could not have found ta more appropri' ate motto for his "Life of Robert Dick,"* than these... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 534 страници
...AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS "In Nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read." SHAKESPEARE. "The heights by great men reached and kept "Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." LONGFELLOW. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS FRANKLIN SQUARE 1879 PREFACE.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1879 - 500 страници
...ILLUSTRATIONS ;'Tn Nature's infinite book, of secrecy ', - • A little I can read." SHAKESPEARE. 'Tho heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained...flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were tolling upwards in the night. " LONGFELLOW. NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS THE NEW YORK PUBLIC... | |
 | 1880 - 208 страници
...nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. —Longfelloui: "TJie Ladder of St. Augustine.' 1 '' X. GOOD name, in man and woman, dear my lord,... | |
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 страници
...That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things." In Mtmoriam. "The height by great men reached and kept Were not attained by...companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something... | |
 | Alfred Cooper Fryer - 1880 - 224 страници
...Cuthb., cap. v. CHAPTER V. CUTHBERHT THE MONK — LIFE IN A SCOTIC MONASTERY — MELROSE AND RIPON. " The heights by great men reached and kept Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night." —LONGFELLOW. \EW Scottish abbeys are more famous than Melrose ; and the romance... | |
 | Charles H. Kent - 1880 - 192 страници
...lottery. It is the universal law of " endless progression," by which the good positions are reached. "The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not...But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling up and in the night." WHAT BRINGS HAPPINESS. HAPPINESS VERSUS GOLD. • Perhaps there never wag a greater... | |
 | David Munro - 1881 - 160 страници
...mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, The distant mountains, that uprear Their solid bastions to the skies, Are crossed by...upward in the night. Standing on what too long we bore We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, Nor... | |
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The heights by great men reached and kept Were not. attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. 
