 | 1886
...faintest stir? History and experience abundantly confirm the poet's thought : — " New occasions teach new duties ; time makes Ancient good uncouth ; They...still and onward who Would keep abreast of truth." It is not unreasonable, therefore, to inquire whether seventy-six years of foreign missionary history... | |
 | EDWARD EVERETT - 1825
...comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer : — uNew 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... | |
 | 1846 - 288 pages
...funeral lamps away, To light up the martyr-faggots round the prophets of to-day 1 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 - 1848 - 184 pages
...haste to slay, From the tombs of the old prophets steal the funeral lamps away 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1849 - 288 pages
...in the frank Dawn's delighted eyes." III. BILIOUS. " Once my love, my love forever." IV. NERVOUS. " They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth." AUGUST. TULIP TREE. ) Liriodendron tidipifera. ) Worthy fame floweth only from a worthy fountain. —... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852
...the funeral lamps away To light up the manyr-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... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 416 pages
...transcend our predecessors, in their efforts to give peace, joy, liberty to the world. 1New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...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... | |
 | Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) - 1853 - 182 pages
...all reformers. He caught these words of noble cheer from Plymouth Rock : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 697 pages
...comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer: — " 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... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 329 pages
...it comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer : ' 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... | |
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New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through... 
