Princetoniana: Charles & A. A. Hodge: with Class and Table Talk of Hodge the Younger

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Scribner & Welford, 1888 - 239 Seiten
 

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Seite 78 - God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Seite 42 - to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.
Seite 89 - He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them ; thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.
Seite 59 - I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in dust away...
Seite 104 - When one would aim an arrow fair, But send it slackly from the string ; And one would pierce an outer ring, And one an inner, here and there ; And last the master-bowman, he Would cleave the mark.
Seite 43 - There is no death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Seite 20 - ... time, In our country's story ; Happy when her welfare calls He who conquers, he who falls. Deeper, deeper, let us toil In the mines of knowledge , Nature's wealth, and learning's spoil, Win from school and college ; Delve we there for richer gems, Than the stars of diadems. Onward, onward, may we press Through the path of duty ; Virtue is true happiness, Excellence true beauty ; Minds are of celestial birth. Make we then a heaven of earth.
Seite 24 - He that of such a height hath built his mind, And reared the dwelling of his thoughts so strong As neither fear nor hope can shake the frame Of his resolved powers, nor all the wind Of vanity or malice pierce to wrong His settled peace, or to disturb the same, What a fair seat hath he, from whence he may The boundless wastes and wilds of man survey.
Seite 73 - O use me, LORD, use even me, Just as Thou wilt, and when, and where, Until Thy blessed face I see, Thy rest, Thy joy, Thy glory share.
Seite 68 - Where is Thy reign of peace, And purity, and love ? "When shall all hatred cease, As in the realms above...

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