 | 1866 - 662 pages
...and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he...or less amounts of horse-power. Devout men, in the endeavor to express their convictions, have used different images to suggest this latent force ; as,... | |
 | 1866 - 672 pages
...above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " ' I i - man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he...or less amounts of horse-power. Devout men, in the endeavor to express their convictions, have used different images to suggest this latent force ; as,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, I There came a voice without reply, — I ' 'T is man's perdition to be safe, ; When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | 1919 - 644 pages
...the inflexible and uncompromising course which he has pursued since last March ? HENRY LEE HIGGINSON Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." r|^HESE are the familiar lines which _I_ Henry Lee Higginson chose for an inscription to stand at the... | |
 | 1888 - 1008 pages
...grandeur is our dust. So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, then must, The youth replies, / can. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe. There came a voice without reply, — "V is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die ! For simple and pure delight... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, Be 1.1 1 - ni faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot... | |
 | 1872 - 760 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, lie thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | Edward Augustus Warriner - 1875 - 420 pages
...dublis libertas, in omnibus caritas." AUGUSTINE. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply — 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." EMERSON. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. ff TIL::.:: i rx>AT:j:-"S E 1. HL Entered according to Act of Congress,... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...remedies. It is the source of many evils, but also of much good; of an unspeakable courage and devotion. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.' And though apparently the amount of war does not diminish with the lapse of centuries, its occasions... | |
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Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply: " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. 
