 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...Croesus himself cam never know ; His true dimensions and his weight Are far inferior to their show. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean...with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man. PLEASURES OF MEMORY. SWEET MEMORY ! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Massachusetts - 1839 - 674 pages
...center. In memory of the Hon. Majr- John Burke, who died Octr- 27th, 1784, in ye 67th year of his age. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul, — The Mind's the standard of the man. To the memory of Doctor Polycarpus Cushman,... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Cities and towns - 1839 - 666 pages
...center. In memory of the Hon. Majr- John Burke, who died Octr 27th, 1784, in y* 67th year of his age. Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, 1 must be measur'd by my soul, — The Mind's the standard of the man. To the memory of Doctor Polycarpns... | |
 | Old Humphrey - Sailors - 1842 - 366 pages
...the leathern scabbard, the other the finely tempered sword. The poet has well expressed himself: ' Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean...my soul ; — The mind 's the standard of the man ! ' " In a military paper that I have seen, the regulation given by King Charles II. runs thus : —... | |
 | Boy - 1842 - 250 pages
...do well to bear in mind the standard set up by Dr. Watts, who was himself a man of small stature : " Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean...with my span, I must be measured by my soul: — The mind's the standard of the man!" There have been great and good men, both tall and short, who have... | |
 | Children's literature - 1848 - 800 pages
...which being heard by Doctor, he turned round, and said, — 282 " Were I so tall to reach the pole, And grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mlr.d's the stature of the man." The following letter will now be better understood by our yonng friends.... | |
 | 1844 - 546 pages
...admirable presence of mind and great good humour he turned round and repeated one of his own stanzas :— " Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with a span, I must he measured by my soul— The mind's the standard of the man." But whatever might be... | |
 | Anne Cox Woodrooffe - Children - 1844 - 414 pages
...small aperture : and a dignified mind may animate an insignificant person. What does Dr. Watts say? ,Were I so tall to reach the Pole, Or grasp the ocean in my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man.' Dignity, as I before... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pages
...nothing, and quoted a verse, composed by Dr. Watts, to prove his proposition, which reads thus : — " Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean in my span ; I must be measured by my soul — The mind's the standard of the man." " So you see,"... | |
 | 1883 - 798 pages
...quoted the well-known lines from his " Hora> Lyrica ": — " Were I eo tall to reach the pole, Or mete the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul ; The mind's tho standard of the man." This hymn-writer was born at Southampton, July 17, 1674. His father... | |
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Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man. 
