 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 228 Seiten
...Voluntaries," pieces written to encourage the young to enlist for the war, contain this noble stanza — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Emerson's earnest feeling on the civil war comes out in his letters to Carlyle. Writing in December,... | |
 | 1888 - 466 Seiten
...normal man is two-thirds will.— Schopenhauer. Politeness is benevolence in trifles.— Macaulay. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, "Thou must," The youth replies, "I can."— Anon. "Alas! it is not when we sleep soft and wake merrily ourselves that we think on the other people's... | |
 | 1888 - 1004 Seiten
...lines from his " Voluntaries " breathe the very essence of his teaching both in prose and verse : — So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. The poetical specialist denies Emerson's claim tobe a poet, and the philosophical specialist equally... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 Seiten
...versification of Kant's sublime maxim, " Duty the measure of ability, not ability the measure of duty : " — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " I find no valid ground of moral obligation but the inborn sense of right. To the question, "Why am... | |
 | Richard M. Lerner, Lou Anna Kimsey Simon - 1998 - 554 Seiten
...children now hove at their disposal Dur coda may properly come from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote: So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, thou must The youth replies, I can. Conclusion William James reminded us that". . . crises show us how much greater our vital resources... | |
 | Robert Gould Shaw - 1999 - 492 Seiten
...more monument than man. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near to God is man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Six months after Wagner, James Russell Lowell penned "Memoriae Positum: RGS, 1863": "Brave, good, and... | |
 | Frank L. Grzyb - 2000 - 334 Seiten
...of. We'd chase him around the boat all day and all night trying to pull that sucker off. FIVE THE WAR So nigh is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must. The youth replies, I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson JUST DOING MY JOB REGARDLESS of one's branch of service, whether enlisted man... | |
 | William James - 2000 - 404 Seiten
...The insight and creed from which Emerson's life followed can be best summed up in his own verse: — So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man!7 Through the individual fact there ever shone for him the effulgence of the Universal Reason.... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 Seiten
...air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth2 replies, I can. 1867 A voluntary is a piece of music performed as a prelude. Emerson's poem,... | |
 | Paul A. Shackel - 2003 - 276 Seiten
...Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Duncan 1992:55) wrote, So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near to God is man When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can Plans for a Shaw Memorial began almost immediately after his death. Shaw's own regiment, although still... | |
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can... 
