 ... of learning. Nor have we any reason for despondency. There is that in American character, which has never yet been found unequal to its purpose. There is that in American enterprise, which shrinks not, and faints not, and fails not in its labors....  The Life of a Boy - Seite 125von Miss Stockdale (Mary R.) - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 Seiten
...soil : But tell each land (while every toil they share, Firm to sustain , and resolute to dare , ) Man is the nobler growth our realms supply ^ And Souls are ripen'd in our northern sky. Some pensive creep along the shelly shore , Unfold the silky texture ot a flower, With sharpen'*! eyes... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 Seiten
...native soil : But tell each land (while every toil they share, Firm to sustain, and resolute to dare) MAN is the nobler growth our realms supply, And SOULS are ripen'd in our northern sky. Some pcnsivt cref p along the shelly shore, Unfold the silky texture of a flower, With sharpen'd eyes... | |
 | Anna Laetitia Barbauld - 1820 - 136 Seiten
...native soil : But tell each land (while every toil they share, Firm to sustain, and resolute to dare,) MAN is the nobler growth our realms supply, And SOULS are ripen'd in our northern sky. Some, pensive creep along the shelly shore, Unfold the silky texture of a flower ; With sharpen'd eyes... | |
 | Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 Seiten
...advance northward, we shall find vegetation more cautious of meeting this premature summer, \vhilst Italy, and the south of France, are now glowing in...the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ri|.ni'tl in our northern sky." " A very appropriate quotation, my love, from a most beautiful poem.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...native soil ; But tell each land (while every toil they share, Firm to sustain, and resolute to dare) MAN is the nobler growth our realms supply, And SOULS are ripen'd in our northern sky. Some pensive creep along the shelly shore,. Unfold the silky texture of a flow'r,. With sharpen'd eyes... | |
 | 1827 - 544 Seiten
...enterprise, which shrinks not, and faints not, and fails not in its labors. We may say with honest pride, " Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripen'd in our Northern sky." We may not then shrink from a rigorous examination of our own deficiencies in science and literature.... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1828 - 230 Seiten
...despots of Burmah, an Englishman may be excused for exclaiming, in the language of Mrs. Barbauld — ' Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripen'd 'neath our northern sky.' " Under these recollections you will not be jealous though I confess that... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 Seiten
...imagination. The climate of Great Britain is exceedingly favourable for the expansion of the mental powers. " Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky." This country, therefore, and others in a similar latitude, have given birth to more eminent men than... | |
 | 1899 - 500 Seiten
...enterprise which shrinks not, and faints not, and fails not in its labors. We may say with honest pride, " Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky." We may not then shrink from a rigorous examination of our own deficiencies in science and literature.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 500 Seiten
...enterprise which shrinks not, and faints not, and fails not in its labors. We may say with honest pride, " Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripen'd in our northern sky." We may not then shrink from a rigorous examination of our own deficiencies in science and literature.... | |
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