 | John Bartholomew Gough - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - 1884 - 560 pages
...not mailed in scorn, But in the armor of a pure intent. Great duties are before me and great aims; And whether crowned or crownless, when I fall, It matters not, so that God's work is done." Oh, it is grand to see a man confronting the crowd for their own good, —... | |
 | Arthur Sidgwick, Francis David Morice - Greek language - 1885 - 272 pages
...'he being naked would defeat,' 12-13. ' If women and children ... etc. a man would be ashamed LXXVII. I will go forth 'mong men, not mailed in scorn, but...I fall, it matters not, so as God's work is done. 5 I've learned to prize the quiet lightning-deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels which men... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - Great Britain - 1886 - 212 pages
...that life is worth living, then he takes up his task and goes on, saying, — " And whether crown'd or crownless when I fall It matters not, so as God's work is done. I've learn'd to prize the quiet lightning deedNot the applauding thunder at its heels Which men call fame."... | |
 | Calendars - 1886 - 216 pages
...you fail of every end you seek, yet which disciplines you for a better, is assuredly not a failure. I will go forth 'mong men not mailed in scorn, But in the armor of a pure intent ; Great duties are before me, and great songs, And whether crowned or crownless... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - Prose poems, English - 1888 - 440 pages
...death. Lift, lift ma up By thy sweet inspiration, as the tide Lifts up a stranded boat upon the beach. I will go forth 'mong men, not mailed in scorn, But...before me, and great songs, And whether crowned or crownlcss, when I fall, It matters not, so as God's work is done. I've learned to prize the quiet lightning... | |
 | American poetry - 1888 - 328 pages
...finding our failures were successes." T WILL go forth 'mong men, not mailed in scorn, 1 But in the armor of a pure intent ; Great duties are before me, and...I fall, It matters not, so as God's work is done. ALEXANDER SMITH. "TTIS all I have — smoke, failure, foiled endeavor, 1 Coldness and doubt, and palsied... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 252 pages
...says, " Too late ! " Stay not for taking scrip and cup, The Master hungers while ye wait. JR Lowell. Great duties are before me, and great songs, And whether...when I fall, It matters not so as God's work is done. Alexander Smith. In the world's great harvest-day Every grain, on every ground — Stony, thorny, by... | |
 | Missions, British - 1890 - 982 pages
...strength I will do my duty as a soldier of Jesus Christ in Central Africa. ' Great duties are before me, and, whether crowned or crownless, when I fall it matters not, so as God's work is done.' " The Board then separated. Sailor, Architect, Student, Missionary. In introducing the Rev. JH Cullen,... | |
 | Thomas Rosling Howlett - Anglo-Israelism - 1892 - 294 pages
...the nations." ROBERT LOWRY, DD " I will go forth among men not mailed with scorn, But in the armor of a pure intent; Great duties are before me and great...when I fall It matters not so as God's work is done. I have learned to prize the quiet light'ning deed, Not the applanding thuuder at its heels Which men... | |
 | Augusta Jane Evans - Alabama - 1896 - 538 pages
...pardonable ; but I desire it not as an end, but as a means to an end — usefulness to my fellow-creatures; 'And whether crowned or crownless, when I fall, It matters not, so as God's work is done.' I love my race, I honor my race; I believe that human nature, sublimated by Christianity, is capable... | |
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mong men, not mailed in scorn, But in the armour of a pure intent, Great duties are before me, and great songs. And whether crowned or crownless, when I fall, It matters not, so as God's work is done. 
