 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 778 pagina’s
...AMERICAN (1809-1894) FROM THE AMERICAN STORY 443 Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light. PUBLIC MOMENTS AND ULTIMATE MATTERS 444 I Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt... | |
 | William R. Hutchison - 2003 - 294 pagina’s
..."Once to Every Man and Nation," which he composed in 1845 and set to an equally majestic Welsh melody: Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes on forever 'twixt that darkness and the light. Some of the most striking, unqualified... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 pagina’s
...improve this opportunity which is given to them, under the providence of God, to put an end to slavery. "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to...or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offers each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt the darkness and that light."18... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - 2004 - 1220 pagina’s
...biblical images and antislavery gave an apocalyptic meaning to "The Present Crisis": Once to ev'ry man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the...or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, Off'ring each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by for ever 'Twixt that darkness and that light.... | |
 | Warren Goldstein - 2005 - 406 pagina’s
...hymn, "Once to Every Man and Nation," a useful condensation of his approach to his antiwar activity: "Once to every man and nation / Comes the moment to...truth with falsehood, / For the good or evil side." Coffin and the Resistance could not have had better press coverage. The Boston Globe gave them page... | |
 | Diane Roberts - 2007 - 376 pagina’s
...have equal opportunities." Then he quoted from a hymn by James Russell Lowell, a Yankee abolitionist: Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,...of truth with falsehood, For the Good or Evil side. What ailed the Negroes of Florida? white people asked. What did they want? And had LeRoy Collins lost... | |
 | Howard Goeringer - 2005 - 330 pagina’s
...intention while we are still in the flesh. As the American poet, James Russell Lowell, wrote a century ago, Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide,...God's new Messiah, Offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever Twixt that darkness and that light. God must be tired of a "waiting... | |
 | Basil Gordon Byron, Frederic Reni Coudert - 2005 - 581 pagina’s
...SHAKESPEARE. One single positive weighs more, You know, than negatives a score. — MATTHEW PRIOK. Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side. — LOWELL. 49? EFFICIENCY An efficient man is a man who can do what he ought to do when he ought to... | |
 | Patricia Bernstein - 2006 - 268 pagina’s
...name for the organization's magazine, taken from James Russell Lowell's poem "The Present Crisis." ("Once to every man and nation comes the moment to...strife of Truth with Falsehood for the good or evil side.")28 But the glamorous and dashing English soon had to end his role as a spokesman for the NAACP... | |
 | Erik Kolbell - 2004 - 186 pagina’s
...unwillingness to do right by it. That is all. And that is enough. The Riddle of Peter Once to every life and nation comes the moment to decide, in the strife...of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side. - James Russell Lowell1 And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away; for it is written, 7 vv/7/... | |
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side ; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon... 
