 | Jabez Tunnicliff - 1865 - 284 Seiten
...we are tracing — a history more replete with interest than the most stirring romance : — " Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints •which perhaps another, Sailing down life's... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 Seiten
...the dead Past bury its dead! Act,—act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1865 - 588 Seiten
...births, deaths, and more striking incidents in the lives of those benefactors to mankind. " ' Lives of great men all remind us we may make our lives sublime.' — The truth of this is strongly enforced in the brief memoirs which are included in this volume.... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1866 - 312 Seiten
...never die. Who can measure the ages that those simple lines of Longfellow will live? " Lives of good men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Foot-prints on the sands of time. " Foot-prints that, perhaps, another Sailing o'er life's... | |
 | lady Mary Anne Hardy - 1866 - 320 Seiten
...fellow-travellers. He buried himself in the works of such men as those of whom Longfellow writes : — " The acts of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, when dying, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." Arnold had left London undecided whither... | |
 | 1866 - 568 Seiten
...THE PRAYER OP JABEZ. BY THE REV. SAMUEL COULINO. 1 Chron. iv. 9, 10. WE have been told that " Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime ;" but there have been some great men whose biographies, if written, would teach us quite a contrary... | |
 | 1880 - 630 Seiten
...God o'erhead." You know the remaining lines of the poet ; but I will remind you of them : — " Lives of great men all remind us, We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints in the sands of time — " Footprints that perchance another, Sailing o'er life's... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1867 - 358 Seiten
...American poet wrote his r.oble " Psalm of Life," the great truth embodied in the liiies — " Lives of great men all remind us , We may make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." had been recognised, and acted on, although it had nsver... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1867 - 266 Seiten
...arts who have gone before them, and whose records remain for the instruction of posterity. " The lives of great men all remind us we may make our lives sublime." When a boy is apprenticed to a trade, he is considered fortunate if his master is a skilled artisan.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1869 - 458 Seiten
...In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. " Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Foot-prints on the sands of Time.11 "DIOGR APHY is History teaching by example. It is the... | |
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Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart... 
