 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high, As I can now discern with this clear eye. And next in value, which thy kindness lends, That I may greatly disappoint my friends, Howe'er...  Southern Practitioner - Page 4961908Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 560 pages
...aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty, yet they all accord at last. " Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high, As I can now discern with this clear eye. That my weak hand may... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1843 - 564 pages
...aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty, yet they all accord at last. " Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high, As I can now discern with this clear eye. That my weak hand may... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty, yet they all accord at last. " Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. " And next in value,... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - Piccadilly (London, England) - 1870 - 346 pages
...saint, which, in years gone by, had fixed itself permanently in some vacant niche of my mind : — " Great God ! I ask Thee for no meaner pelf, Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my actions I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye ; »?' And next in value... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 406 pages
...Papers. Thoreau was the author of the poetical prayer in this article, beginning with the words, — *' Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself." and gives broad hint of his deep sympathy with every true form of the spirit of devotion and faith.... | |
 | John Burroughs, Edmund Clarence Stedman - American essays - 1882 - 194 pages
...field thy anthem's rung, When that is done I will not fear But the same power will abet my tongue. PRAYER. Great God ! I ask thee for no meaner pelf, Than that I may not disappoint myself ; That in my conduct I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye ; That my weak hand... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Authors, American - 1882 - 358 pages
...with selfishness — was expressed by him early in a prayer which he threvr into this verse : — " Great God ! I ask Thee for no meaner pelf, Than that I may not disappoint myself ; That in my conduct I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. That my weak hand... | |
 | Annie Russell Marble - American literature - 1882 - 364 pages
...with selfishness — was expressed by him early in a prayer which he threw into this verse : — " Great God ! I ask Thee for no meaner pelf, Than that I may not disappoint myself ; That in my conduct I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. That my weak hand... | |
 | John Burroughs, Edmund Clarence Stedman - American essays - 1882 - 200 pages
...rung, When that is done I will not fear But the same power will abet my tongue. PRAYER. Great God II ask thee for no meaner pelf, Than that I may not disappoint myself ; That in my conduct I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye ; That my weak hand... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 340 pages
...regularly performed ; if his friends were disappointed, he at least was not. Witness his own lines : " Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. " And next in value,... | |
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