| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer : — " New occasions teach new duties ; Time mokes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still and...would keep abreast of Truth : Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our MnyBower, and steer boldly through the desperate... | |
| Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...calling; in attitude be should be a student always — in the words of Lowell: " 'New occasions teach new duties, Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...must upward still and onward, Who would keep abreast the truth.' " TO PRINT THE PROCEEDINGS. President Burch then referred to the growth of the Wisconsin... | |
| Education - 1856 - 412 pages
...$413,454 96. " New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good nncouth ; They inmat upward »till and onward who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch onr Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter... | |
| Charles Sumner - History - 1856 - 568 pages
...still and onward who would keep abreast of Truth : Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we our selves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea." THE LANDMARK OF FREEDOM; FREEDOM NATIONAL. SPEECH IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AGAINST THE REPEAL... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...funeral lamps away To light up the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day ? New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...Time makes ancient good uncouth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal... | |
| Ann Preston - 1859 - 62 pages
...observations, unsupported hypotheses, blind adherence to authorities, suflB.ce no longer ; here also, " They must upward still and onward who would keep abreast of truth." Medicine is surely destined to become a richer blessing to humanity than it has yet been. The advances... | |
| Concord (Mass.) - 1861 - 114 pages
...us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. ' New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...would keep abreast of truth. Lo ! before us gleam her camp-fires ; we ourselves must pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower and steer boldly through the desperate... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...funeral lamps away To light up the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day ? New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...that such men will be better employed, in building up the noble and the beautiful. New occasions bring new duties— time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...still, and onward, who would keep abreast of truth: On before us gleam her campfires — we ourselves must pilgrims be — Nor attempt the future's portals... | |
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