 | 1892 - 570 strani
...and tossed into spray. Its grandeur would move the soul of the dullest man. But it was not from these billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths, lengths, and widths are measured. And so in the conflicts of science, like the . waves of the ocean,... | |
 | James Sanks Brisbin - 1880 - 598 strani
...billows, but the calm level of th£ sea from which all heights and depths are measured. [Applause.] When the storm has passed and the hour of calm settles...which he measures all terrestrial heights and depths. [Applause.] Gentlemen of the convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1880 - 386 strani
...fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man. But I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all hights and depths are measured ; when the storm has passed, and the hour of calm settles on the ocean,... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1881 - 614 strani
...fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man. But I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea...which he measures all terrestrial heights and depths. " Gentlemen of the convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people.... | |
 | 1881 - 354 strani
...fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man ; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea...passed and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight bathes its peaceful surface, then the astronomer and surveyor take the level from which... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1881 - 430 strani
...fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man. But I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea,...passed, and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight bathes its smooth surface, then the astronomer and surveyor take the level from which... | |
 | Jonas Mills Bundy - 1881 - 302 strani
...fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man, but I remember that it is not the billows but the calm level of the sea...passed and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight bathes its smooth surface, then the astronomer and surveyor takes the level from which... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - 1881 - 426 strani
...fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man. But I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea,...passed, and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when the sunlight bathes its smooth surface, then the astronomer and surveyor take the level from which... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1881 - 784 strani
...fury and tossed into a spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man. But I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured. [Applause.] When the storm has passed and the hour of calm settles on the ocean, when sunlight bathes... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1881 - 488 strani
...forget the sentence which fell from his lips upon the tumultuary convention at Chicago: " But I remember it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured." And that convention, measuring its duty from that standard, chose the man who doubtless represented... | |
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man ; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured. 
