 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1888 - 72 หน้า
...lips of the man, whose boyhood knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean" ! How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that declaration of... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 หน้า
...versification of Kant's sublime maxim, " Duty the measure of ability, not ability the measure of duty : " — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " I find no valid ground of moral obligation but the inborn sense of right. To the question,... | |
 | 1888 - 466 หน้า
...normal man is two-thirds will.— Schopenhauer. Politeness is benevolence in trifles.— Macaulay. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...Duty whispers low, "Thou must," The youth replies, "I can."— Anon. "Alas! it is not when we sleep soft and wake merrily ourselves that we think on the... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1888 - 676 หน้า
...consciousness, and fails to inspire. Emerson was better than his philosophy, when he wrote : " So near is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to man, When...duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " How different from this is the writing of George Eliot, with her exaggeration of heredity... | |
 | Health Research - 1996 - 110 หน้า
...unconquered Will, He rises in my breast, Serene and resolute and still, And calm and self-possessed." * * * "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...Duty whispers low, "Thou must!" The youth replies, "I can.' " * * * "I will to will with energy and decision! I will to persist in willing! I will to... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 หน้า
...the realization of your ideal. The basis of faith is — I AM POWER AND I CAN. Emerson says: So near is grandeur to our dust ; So near is God to Man ;...Duty whispers low, "THOU MUST!" The youth replies, "I CAN I" 18 II. Self-Confidence— / Can We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 หน้า
...the realization of your ideal. The basis of faith is— I AM POWER AND I CAN. Emerson says: So near is grandeur to our dust ; So near is God to Man ; When Duty whispers low, "THOU MUST I" The youth replies, "I CAN I" II. Self-Confidence—/ Can We cannot describe the natural history... | |
 | Joan Waugh - 1997 - 332 หน้า
...parents'. Emerson said it best in his commemorative poem of the Fifty-fourth, "Voluntaries," with the lines So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. Shaw's family was jubilant, and when Rob arrived in Boston on February 15, 1863, to commence... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 หน้า
...the race that needs us, in the world that awaits us. Will you do it? Can you do it? "So near is the grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man; When duty whispers low thou must, The youth replies — I can." (DEP, 18) Du Bois's engagement with Emerson's writings on the ethical demand for self-cultivation... | |
 | Richard M. Lerner, Lou Anna Kimsey Simon - 1998 - 554 หน้า
...children now hove at their disposal Dur coda may properly come from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote: So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, thou must The youth replies, I can. Conclusion William James reminded us that". . . crises show us how much greater our vital resources... | |
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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... 
