| 1827 - 460 pages
...all the people, and a tower of strength beyond estimation to our American representative government. The riches of the commonwealth, Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her ancient... | |
| Congregational churches - 1893 - 468 pages
...desire to realize for North Carolina what Whittier. the poet, portrays as true of Massachusetts: ' ' The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. " For well she keeps her... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 144 pages
...hills, the school-house stands, And what her rugged soil denies, The harvest of the mind supplies. 9 The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her ancient... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...of our highest ambition? What do we most wish for our sons and daughters? In the words of Whittier: "The riches of the Commonwealth, Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain." Unless we have virtue,... | |
| Education - 1893 - 404 pages
...secrets which the logic of events has to unfold. — From Pathfinder in American History. BITS OF THINGS. "The riches of the Commonwealth, Are free, strong minds and hearts of health, And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain." "Take joy home, And make... | |
| Education - 1860 - 532 pages
...of every good teacher, as we recognize here anew the solid truth of a noble American poet's words : The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. She heeds no sceptic's puny... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...hills, the school-house stands, And what her rugged soil denies, The harvest of the mind supplies. The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her ancient... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1866 - 122 pages
...hills, the school-house stands, And what her rugged soil denies, The harvest of the mind supplies. The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health ; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her ancient... | |
| 1880 - 630 pages
...waters, and thou shalt find it after many days." RW REMINISCENCENCES OF NEW ENGLANDPAST AND PRESENT. " The riches of the Commonwealth Are free strong minds and hearts of health, And more to them than gold or grain The cunning hand and cultured brain." WHITTIEK. To every Englishman... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...hills, the school-house stands, And what her rugged soil denies, The harvest of the mind supplies. The riches of the commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health • And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain. For well she keeps her... | |
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