 | John Howard Bertram Masterman - Democracy - 1909 - 140 pages
...the will ; Conscience to guide and check ; and death to be Forecasted, immortality conceived By all. The primal duties shine aloft — like stars, The...— like flowers, The generous inclination, the just will, Kind wishes and good actions and pure thoughts • No mystery is here — here is no boon For... | |
 | James Terry White - Character - 1909 - 132 pages
...find there were no asylums of relief in those days scattered throughout their lands; while with us "The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers." — WORDSWORTH. Lead the class to see that besides the poor, the sick, and the needy, there are other... | |
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - Quotations - 1881 - 472 pages
...goes to the end of the earth in search of misery, for the purpose of talking about it. George Mason. THE charities that soothe, and heal and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. Wordsworth. I NEVEB knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose,... | |
 | Edward Mortimer Chapman - Christianity and literature - 1910 - 604 pages
...knowledge, ill begun in cold remark On outward things, with formal inference ends. Book iv, 11. 622-623. The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The...scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. The puzzle of genius which presents itself in Burns, as we contrast his clearness of spiritual vision with... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 798 pages
...all other relations, in the order in which they are presented by Christ and as they affect his glory. "The primal duties shine aloft like stars : The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers." A branch, in order to fructify, must be one with the stock, and the stock one with the root, from which,... | |
 | John Tilden Prince - English language - 1910 - 272 pages
...setting. 50. 'T is greatly wise to know, before we 're told The melancholy news, that we grow old. 51. The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. 52. I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies. •53. If I try to escape,... | |
 | Thomas O'Donnell - Pastoral theology - 1910 - 352 pages
...good priest, but also to be agreeable and gracious to all whom he wishes to gain or to convince.1 " The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers." Let us, therefore, ask ourselves : Have we respect for the rights of others ? Do we suspect and judge... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - Homiletical illustrations - 1912 - 702 pages
...spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God „ with the lowly duties of servants. — FW ROBERTSON. The primal duties shine aloft like stars; The charities...bless, Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. — WORDSWORTH. Knowledge is the hill which few may hope to climb ; Duty is the path that all may tread.... | |
 | Mark Harvey Liddell - English language - 1914 - 54 pages
...when preceded and followed by low stressed impulses. The primal duties shine aloft — like st.irs; The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. ***** bere is no boon for high, Yet not for low; for proudly graced, Yet not for meek of heart. The... | |
 | Alexander Darroch - Education - 1914 - 186 pages
...— her chief duties still those of wife and mother — still belongs to her the task of seeing that the " charities that soothe, and heal, and bless are scattered at the feet of men like flowers ". And while the chief motive for the study of the ancient literatures is the perfection... | |
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The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers. 
