 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - Heroes - 1882 - 252 pages
...the opinions of the majority. This is also at the basis of Robert Browning's definition of a people : "A people is but the attempt of many to rise to the completer life of one " (A SouVs Tragedy). THE MORAL IDEAL. 233 they discovered in them so much that was good, so much that... | |
 | Robert William Dale - Christian ethics - 1884 - 324 pages
...worth to a nation of a man of heroic goodness—illustrate the philosophy of Christian morals :— " A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the...models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are you, and such a time is this, That your sole fate concerns a nation more Than... | |
 | Robert William Dale - Christian ethics - 1884 - 328 pages
...worth to a nation of a man of heroic goodness—illustrate the philosophy of Christian morals :— " A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the...models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are you, and such a time is this, That your sole fate concerns a nation more Than... | |
 | Education - 1886 - 712 pages
...by and by, to become the ornaments of their time. Robert Browning has well and forcefully said : — "A people is but the attempt of many, To rise to the...models for the mass, Are singly of more value than they all." Eminent intellectual power may be rare, but the very rareness and costliness of the material... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 668 pages
...Tib. I return From Florence: I serve Pisa, and must thiik By such procedure I have served her best. A. people is but the attempt of many To rise to the...models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are you, and such a time is this That your sole fate concerns a nation more Than... | |
 | Robert Browning, Hiram Corson - 1886 - 398 pages
...lines, fresh stuff for the intellect to stamp and keep — fresh instinct for it to translate into law. "A people is but the attempt of many to rise to the completer life of one." (' A Soul's Tragedy.') Only the man who supplies new feeling fresh from God, quickens and regenerates... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 424 pages
...Tib. I return From Florence : I serve Pisa, and must think By such procedure I have served her best. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the...models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. Such man are you, and such a time is this, That your sole fate concerns a nation more Than... | |
 | Robert Browning - Birthday books - 1887 - 140 pages
...the man. Who keeps one end in view makes all things serve. IN A BALCONY. 12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809. A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the...models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. LURIA. 13. Talleyrand, 1754. Religion 's all or nothing : it 's no mere smile O' contentment,... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - Education - 1888 - 732 pages
...every crisis, by the common people of Virginia, illustrates the truth of Robert Browning's verse : " A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one. " THE FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Emerson's words, with which the writer began the present... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 1124 pages
...every crisis, by the common people of Virginia, illustrates the truth of Eobert Browning's verse : " A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one. " THE FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. • Emerson's words, with which the writer began the present... | |
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A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one ; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. 
