How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy to the weak, and reverence For Life, which, in its weakness or excess, Is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, Or Death, which, seeming darkness, is no less The selfsame light, although averted hence,... Illinois Teacher: Devoted to Education, Science and Free Schools - Page 261864Full view - About this book
| 1861 - 420 pages
...wisdom, full of energy, full of faith;" take up the lament of the preceptor of Killinworth Academy:— " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the Very things I teach '. " What is true of morals, is also true of intellectual culture and discipline. It is an error, and... | |
| Rhode Island - 1862 - 1520 pages
...full of energy, full of faith;" take up the lament of the preceptor of Killinworth Academy : — . " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...life, which, in its weakness or excess, Is still a glenm of God's omnipotence, Or death, which, seeming darkness, is no less The self-same light, although... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 310 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " "With this he closed ; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 260 pages
...your man-at-arms , Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. "How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...reverence For Life, which, in its weakness or excess, IB still a gleam of God's omnipotence, Or Death, which, seeming darkness, is no less The selfsame light,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 254 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With this he closed ; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. "How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach?" With this he closed; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ; The farmers... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 232 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. For Life, which, in its weakness or excess, Is still...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With this he closed ; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...your manat-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can I teach your children gentleness, And mercy...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach ? " With this he closed ; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. For Life, which, in its weakness or excess, Is still...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach?" With this he closed; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves ; The farmers... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1867 - 482 pages
...manat-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail. " How can l teach your children gentleness, And mercy to the weak,...your speech, You contradict the very things I teach?" With this he closed ; and through the audience went A murmur, like the rustle of dead leaves; The farmers... | |
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