 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...onward bear the message ! THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast them said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder,* if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...HW Longfellow. 1173. EXCELLENOE, Attainment of. Saint Augustine 1 well hast thou said, That of pur to vice, Quickly him they will entice ; But, if fortune once do frown, Then — fare 1 All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | 1872 - 692 pages
...thee every day." She gtoMcv at £t, Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents,... | |
 | John Earle - 1873 - 736 pages
...Longfellow we have the name accented on the first syllable. • Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! ' In the same way they say dlly, Invalid, pdrtisan, not for the ancient weapon ' pertuisan,' but... | |
 | David Kay - 1873 - 242 pages
...nobis facimns si vitia ipsa calcamus." — (St. AUGUSTINE.) " St. Augustine, well hast thou said, That, of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." — (LONGFELLOW.) * " Conviction, were it never so excellent, is worthless till it converts itself... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...leave you so. SFialkespere. THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed o: shame. All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and... | |
 | 1873 - 172 pages
...and self-indulgence is far stronger than to anger. St. Augustine tells us that " Of our vices we may frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame." * And each temptation has generally a corresponding good to help us on our heavenward way. For example,... | |
 | John Earle - 1873 - 708 pages
...Longfellow we have the name accented on the first syllable. ' Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread In the same way they say ally, invalid, partisan, not for the ancient weapon ' pertuisan,' but for... | |
 | John Clifford - 1874 - 204 pages
...poem of Longfellow's on ' THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE. ' Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. ' All common things — each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures, and our... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 898 pages
...corner-stone of a nation IJ The Courtship of Miles Standish. Saint Augustine ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame ! Tht Ladder of St. Augustine. Sail on, O Ship of State 1 Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity... | |
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