 ... children of the noble and virtuous men who have made me what I am ! My soul is lost in wonder at the thought ! And I humbly thank Him to whom we are but as worms of the dust, that He has been pleased to call me to serve such men ! Earth has no higher,...  The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day - Page 238by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1915Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1874 - 278 pages
...call me to serve such men ! Earth has no higher, no grander position for me. Let kings and emperors keep their tinsel crowns, I want them not ; my heart is here ! " Again I thought, Is this a theatre ? No. Is it a concert or a gilded opera ? No. Is it some other vain, brilliant, beautiful temple... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1874 - 640 pages
...call me to serve such men ! Earth has no higher, no grander position for me. Let kings and emperors keep their tinsel crowns, I want them not ; my heart is here ! " Again I thought, Is this a theatre ? No. Is it a concert SENATOR DILLWORTHY ADDRESSING THE SUNDAY SCUOOL STORY OF A POOH LITTLE... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Washington (D.C.) - 1883 - 522 pages
...keep their tinsel crowns, I want them not ; my heart is here ! " Again I thought, Is this a theatre ? No. Is it a concert or a gilded opera ? No. Is it...soul-staining amusement and hilarity ? No. Then what is it ? THAT MAN STANDS BEFORE YOU! 401 What did my consciousness reply? I ask you my little friends, What... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 392 pages
...call me to serve such men ! Earth has no higher, no grander position for me. Let kings and emperors keep their tinsel crowns, I want them not; my heart...hilarity? No. Then what is it? What did my consciousness reply? I ask you, my little friends, What did my consciousness reply? It replied, It is the temple... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - City and town life - 1901 - 390 pages
...call me to serve such men ! Earth has no higher, no grander position for me. Let kings and emperors keep their tinsel crowns, I want them not; my heart...hilarity? No. Then what is it? What did my consciousness reply? I ask you, my little friends, What did my consciousness reply? It replied, It is the temple... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1901 - 382 pages
...call me to serve such men ! Earth has no higher, no grander position for me. Let kings and emperors keep their tinsel crowns, I want them not; my heart...hilarity? No. Then what is it? What did my consciousness reply? I ask you, my little friends, What did my consciousness reply? It replied, It is the temple... | |
 | Mark Twain - Businessmen - 1915 - 306 pages
...Him to whom we are but as worms of the dust, that He has been pleased to call me to serve such men l Earth has no higher, perors keep their tinsel crowns,...hilarity? No. Then what is it? What did my consciousness renly? I ask you, my little friends, What did my cor sciousness reply? It replied, It is the temple... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1915 - 390 pages
...call me to serve such men ! Earth has no higher, no grander position for me. Let kings and emperors keep their tinsel crowns, I want them not; my heart...hilarity? No. Then what is it? What did my consciousness re7ly? I ask you, my little friends, What did my consciousness reply? It replied, It is the temple... | |
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