 | Alfred Edward Humphreys - 1895 - 298 pages
...true Pastor, that I may have a Mark to aim at: which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the Moon, than he that aims at a Tree.' G. HERBERT. ' BISHOPS and Priests, blessed are ye, if deep (As yours above all offices is high) Deep... | |
 | George Hodges - 1899 - 292 pages
...true pastor, that I may have a mark to aim at: which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree." It was said the other day in comment upon a brilliant professor in the university that everything that... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 548 pages
...— Cl. M. My lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon.— Shak., Titus Andronieus, iv. 3, 65. He shoots higher that threatens the moon than he that aims at a tree.— Herbert, Temple, " To the Reader." 1632. He that would shoot high, must aim at the moon. He will shoot... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 814 pages
...pastor, that I may have a mark to aim at ; which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the moon than he that aims at a tree." We find precisely the same thought in his poems: — 148 " .Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects high... | |
 | A. G. Hyde - 1906 - 456 pages
...pastor, that I may have a mark to aim at ; which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the moon than he that aims at a tree." Although dated 1632 by Herbert in his introduction ("The Author to the Reader"), it was not printed... | |
 | George Herbert - 1991 - 500 pages
...true pastor, that I may have a mark to aim at: which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the moon than he that aims at...Not that I think, if a man do not all which is here expressed, he presently sins and displeases God, but that it is a good strife to go as far as we can... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1995 - 420 pages
...true Pastor, that he might have a mark to aim at; and setting it as high as he could, since 'he shoots higher that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree. ' Herbert must be considered to have fulfilled his design. The epidemics of one age require a different... | |
 | Gordon C. Miller - 1996 - 191 pages
...pastor, saying in a note to the reader that "I will set [my mark] as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the Moon, than he that aims at a tree." The Country Parson contains collected pieces of wisdom and advice, and displays the common sense of... | |
 | Jessica Martin - 2001 - 384 pages
...at: which also I will set as high as I can, since hee shoots higher that threatens the Moon, then hee that aims at a Tree. Not that I think, if a man do not all which is here expressed, hee presently sinns, and displeases God, but that it is a good strife to go as farre as... | |
 | Richard H. Schmidt - 2002 - 364 pages
...standard spelled out in A Priest to the Temple,but says he was setting a goal to aim at, since "he shoots higher that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree." It is reliably reported, however (Walton is not the only source here), that Herbert virtually epitomized... | |
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I have resolved to set down the form and character of a true pastor, that I may have a mark to aim at ; which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree. 
