 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 188 pages
...for the youthful moot court and a prefatory letter of apology. CHAPTER NINTH. WILLIAM WIBT'S BOYHOOD. "Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place.'* — Longfellow. WHEN William Wirt was fourteen years old, he left school. His small patrimony was expended,... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Judges - 1850 - 184 pages
...of apology. CHAPTER NINTH. WILLIAM WIRT'S BOYHOOD. "Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a tinu and ample base ; And ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place," — Longfellow. WHEN William Wirt was fourteen years old, he left school. His small patrimony was expended,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek...With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1852 - 250 pages
...; Leave no yawning gap between; Think not, because no man sees, Such things will remain unseen. 5. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place. 6. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one... | |
 | Gift books - 1854 - 342 pages
...existence, for thus alone can we fill out the measure of each day and make our life a perfect work. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...we attain To those turrets where the eye Sees the earth as one vast plain, And ("a' boundless reach of sky. " O, I WILL BUY THY FLOWERS." ET MABT 8.... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 388 pages
...well, Both the unseen and the seen, Make the house where God may dwell Beautiful, entire, and clean. " Build today then strong and sure, With a firm and...ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place." CHAPTER V. CHRISTIAN UNION. " They stand aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which have been rent... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...inquirers. Thus, Longfellow, in one of his " Poems by the Fireside," entitled " The Builders :" — " Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and...ascending and secure, Shall to-morrow find its place." are but darkling pilgrims, iron-shod indeed for the journey of life, but unguided by any light greater... | |
 | 1855 - 786 pages
...betwcen ; Think not, because no man sces, Such things will remain unscen. t, 6 TRACT-DISnUEtTION. " Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secare Shall to-morrow find its place." In order that our influence upon others, espeeially upon those... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...dwell Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of time ; Broken stair-ways, where the feet Stumble as they...to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain N To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek...ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow finds its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast... | |
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Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen; Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. 
