 | Local history - 1835 - 444 pages
...indestructible lava along with their haughty wearers, the cold, smooth, petrified, lifeless, beauties of the "Cities of the Dead." Who would not shudder at...identity? Who would not rather do one living deed, llinn to have his ashes forever enshrined in ever-burnished gold- Sir, I trust, that when we come to... | |
 | Education - 1900 - 708 pages
...imperfectly reported, but the following closing paragraph is worthy of publication here : — • " Who would not rather do one living deed than to have his ashes enshrined in ever-burnished gold? Sir, I trust that when we come to act on this question we shall take... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - Education - 1886 - 720 pages
...want either the head of the philosopher, the heart of the philanthropist, or the nerve of the hero. Who would not rather do one living deed than to have his ashes enshrined in ever-burnished gold? Sir, I trust that when we come to act on this question, we shall... | |
 | James Pyle Wickersham - Education - 1886 - 726 pages
...would not rather do one living deed than to have his ashes enshrined in ever-burnished gold ? Sir, 1 trust that when we come to act on this question, we shall take lofty ground — look beyond the narrow space which now circumscribes our vision — beyond the... | |
 | Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Pennsylvania - 1897 - 316 pages
...learning makes us worse, that education makes men rogues,' should find no echo within these halls. . . . Who would not rather do one living deed than to have his ashes enshrined in ever-burnished gold ? . . . Why shall Pennsylvania now repudiate a system which is calculated... | |
 | William Whitehead Rupert - Geography - 1903 - 140 pages
...speeches of his life defended the new school law. " Sir," said Mr. Stevens, in the course of his speech, " I trust that when we come to act on this question, we shall take lofty ground,—look beyond the narrow space which now circumscribes our vision, — and so cast... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1898 - 1388 pages
...cold, smooth, petrified, lifeless beauties of the " Cities of the Dead.'' 4 EDUCATION REPORT, 1898-99. ever-burnished gold? Sir, I trust that when we come...beyond the narrow space which now circumscribes our visions— beyond tlio passing, fleeting point of time on which we stand; and so cast our votes that... | |
 | Hans Louis Trefousse - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 352 pages
...reason why such a great commonwealth should not also nurture more great thinkers. "Sir," he concluded, "I trust that when we come to act on this question we shall take lofty ground and so cast our votes that the blessings of education shall be conferred upon every... | |
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... beyond the passing, fleeting point of time on which we stand; and so cast our votes that the blessing of education shall be conferred on every son of Pennsylvania — shall be carried home to the poorest child of the poorest... 