| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1897 - 256 páginas
...Emerson's fine lines : " 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." (1896) XV THE CANT OF COSMOPOLITANISM THIS is the period when young people just coming out of college... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1897 - 302 páginas
...devil's play," but for these loftier aspects. We must never quite lose sight of Emerson's fine lines: "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." (1896) XV THE CANT OF COSMOPOLITANISM... | |
| Edwin Monroe Bacon - 1898 - 440 páginas
...Friends, comrades, kinsmen who died for their country, this field is dedicated by Henry Lee Higginson. Though love repine and reason chafe There came a voice without reply : "1 is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die. The picturesque low structure... | |
| 1898 - 166 páginas
...ROBERT GOULD SHAW, FRIENDS, COMRADES, KINSMEN, WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY, THIS FIELD IS DKDICATED. 11 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.'" *THATCHER MAGOUN. —Born... | |
| Robert Stuart MacArthur - 1899 - 458 páginas
...their cowardice ; from some part of the great host there ought to have been heard this brave voice : "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." These men knew but little of... | |
| William Roscoe Thayer - 1899 - 350 páginas
...all. Some time during those seven years of solitude and torment, he awoke to the great fact that " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Mere existence he could purchase with the base coin of cowardice or casuistry ; but that would be,... | |
| Adolf Augustus Berle - 1899 - 344 páginas
...distinctive thing which allies a man's ability to do with his ability to think. When Emerson wrote, " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe when for the truth he ought to die," he gave birth to a majestic philosophic truth, a product of the academic spirit and habit. And the... | |
| William Bramwell Powell, Louise Connolly - 1899 - 336 páginas
...round to him. 46. 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. 47. The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1899 - 246 páginas
...infinitely greater worth than that of the most luxurious and careless epicure of the Roman court. " 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.'" But, however we may cling... | |
| Arthur Stanwood Pier - 1899 - 310 páginas
...flippancy, and she found it in her heart to correct him. She quoted in a careful, sing-song voice, " '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.' " " So you have seen the monument... | |
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