 | James Redpath - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 530 pages
...force of fire TJnmastered, scorches, ere it reaches them, Their fine-spun webs. WOTTON. How happy is he born and taught Who serveth not another's will, Whose...honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill 1 — Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Not tied unto the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Baker, John Wheeler Tufts - Congregational churches - 1860 - 216 pages
...all my powers shall bow, and sing Thine endless grandeur, and thy grace. 41 How happy is he born or taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armor...honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ; — Whose passions not his masters are ; Whose soul is still prepared for death, — Not tied unto... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...than the fawning simper of thriving adulation. Goldsmith. A HAN. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will ; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his inaster are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the worldly... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1861 - 316 pages
...deeds be thy prayer to thy God ! MRS. FS OSGOOD. TRUE HAPPINESS. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1861 - 44 pages
...are singularly applicable the descriptive lines of Sir Henry Wotton : — " How happy is he born or taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill : Whose passions not his masters are ; Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Not tied... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1861 - 320 pages
...deeds be thy prayer to thy God ! MHS. FS OSGOOD. TRUE HAPPINESS. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will, Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world... | |
 | William Turner Coggeshall - American fiction - 1863 - 348 pages
...according to the highest standard of right and justice, whether before the world, or in his closet — " Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill." Conere had been tried. The testimony was positive, and there was no escape, in the common course of... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1864 - 596 pages
...endless love and peace. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE : LM 466. SIB HENIT Wonoğ. A. Happy Life. i How happy is he born and taught, Who serveth not another's will ;...honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! a Whose passions not his masters are ; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied to this vain... | |
 | Levi K. Coonley - Hymns, English - 1864 - 236 pages
...through each evil hour, And lead us safe to life, through death. INDEPENDENCE. HOW happy is he born or taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his highest skill ; 2 Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death ; Not... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...sorrow. Then ho read out, for the hymn, Sir Ы. Wotton'e verses, 'beginning,— " How happy is he born or taught, Who serveth not another's will ; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth bis only skill ! " After this came the discourse, — he never called any production a "sermon." He... | |
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How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! 
