 | 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,... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 490 páginas
...his country, or to save his son or his friend. And under the action of this sentiment of the Eight, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm,... | |
 | National Society for the Study of Education - 1900 - 1068 páginas
...when we read Emerson's lines, Let Love repine or Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, fis man's perdition to be safe When for the Truth he ought to die. and apply them in any concrete case, we know that there are many whom " the voice " never reaches,... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 páginas
...or reprimand ; 'Twill soon be dark ; Up ! mind thine own aim and God save the mark ! "—ToJ. W. " 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.' " — Saerifice. " So nigh... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1901 - 306 páginas
...liberty? To hug it, when appeal is made by the higher powers to sacrifice it, is not to be a man. " 'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." THE popular clamor is not for the voice of God. Hence the noblest live with abiding things, and are... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1901 - 432 páginas
...Emerson constantly appeals to the standard of flawless excellence in conduct, as in the lines, — " 'T is man's perdition to be safe ' When for the truth he ought to die." Within the past twenty years a new trend in literature has sprung up, initiated largely by Oriental... | |
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T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm, and the other more or less amounts of horsepower. Devout men, in the endeavor... 
