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...a sudden bound, but step by step. " We have not wings — we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb ; By slow degrees — by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time." The history of nations and of those great enterprizes that have exerted a beneficial influence on large...

...hardly, as Longfellow says :— "The mighy pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert-airs, When nearer seen and better known Are but gigantic flights of stairs." Almost as soon as they come within the range of vision they are seen with their serrated edges and...

...fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar : But we have feet to scale and climb, By slow degrees, by more and more, The...gigantic flights of stairs. The distant mountains, that upvear Their solid hastions to the skies, Are crossed by pathways, that appear As we to higher levels...

...PHILLPOTTS AUTHOR OF "THE HILLFORO CONFIRMATION We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we fume feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight ; But they, while their companions...

...perseverance the Greeks reached Troy. " We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time." LONGFELLOW. See " Tu ne cede." Terfdo ossium cor sollicitum.—k troubled heart is a worm to the bones....

...by hard work and by incessant work. " We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy...the desert airs, When nearer seen and better known, Aw but gigantic flights of stairs. " The distant mountains that uprear Their solid bastions to the...

...hard work, and by incessant work. " We have not 'wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy...mighty pyramids of stone That, wedge-like, cleave the desert-airs, When nearer seen and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs. " The distant mountains...

...fair renown The right of eminent domain. We have not wings, we cannot soar ; Bat we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. * The wools of Sl Augustine are, '* De Titiis nostzis s '' — SERHON lll. DC Asctnsiotte. The mighty pyramids...

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