| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...acts, it will become a principle of dissolution and death. XXXV.—GRADATION. HEAVEN is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we...lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to the summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...Holland truly says : — Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by wh1ch we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round, Joseph H. Mansfield. The old theology regards man as being sent into this world as a place of probation... | |
| Daily steps - 1884 - 426 pages
...doing, seek for glory, and honour, and immortality ; eternal life. ROM. ii. 7. Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we...skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. JG HOLLAND. 1 STEADIER step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall. AH CLOUGH. Hold up my... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers (Elementary) - 1884 - 328 pages
...of the verbs surround, frame, delight, and tell. LXI.— Short Quotations. Heaven is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we...skies ; And we mount to its summit round by round. 2. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one: The daisy,... | |
| Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1884 - 348 pages
...spell. If he never mastered his letters, he would never read. Even—- i' Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which...skies, And we mount to its summit round by round." All this is the natural order of things. Truth lies at our feet, we tread upon it. It is over our heads,... | |
| National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1884 - 462 pages
...sinner's tears and wiped with the hair of her head, — of Him who said, " Go, sin no more" ? " Heaven is not reached by a single bound ; But we build the...rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And mount to the summit round by round." That man's case was not different from many I could mention, perhaps... | |
| Education - 1889 - 454 pages
...GARKKTT, JL LAMPSON, ¡.En HOW TO RISE Heaven is not g lined at a single bound ; But we build tiie ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the...And we mount to its summit round by round I count this thing to be grandly true, That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the soul from the common... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...depart, and the vision falls, And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone. Heaven is not reached at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we...lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to the summit round by round. JG HOLLAND. Biography. —Josiah Gilbert Holland was born in Belchertown,... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes - Readers - 1884 - 524 pages
...death. sSn'su al (sSn'shu al), relating to the body. as plr^', long after. Heaven is not reached: at a single bound; But we build the ladder by which we...lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to the summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward... | |
| Alabama Dental Association - Dentistry - 1884 - 278 pages
...little occasion or pretext for down heartedness. " Heaven is not reached at a single hound, Rut we huild the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to the summit, round hy round." 37 ing done the thing before ; and in all human action those faculties... | |
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