"Mount up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who promulgates five different means of flying in the air. First, by means of phials filled with dew, which would attract and cause to mount up. Secondly, by a great bird made of wood, the wings of which should be kept in motion. Thirdly, by rockets, which, going off successively, would drive up the balloon by the force of projection. Fourthly, ...
— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion
... overpowering, driving to school near the middle of the day, as we were obliged to do. I gave up riding, and mounted a sulky, such as a single gentleman drives in at the North. It was exceedingly high, and I found it no small task to mount up into it. Its already very comical appearance was enhanced by the addition of a cover of black India-rubber cloth, with which a friend kindly provided me. Thus adorned, it looked like the skeleton of some strange creature surmounted by a ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various
... much less give up to your wives, the care of their nurture; leave the formation to fortune, under popular and natural laws; leave it to custom to train them up to frugality and hardship, that they may rather descend from rigour than mount up to it. This humour of his yet aimed at another end, to make me familiar with the people and the condition of men who most need our assistance; considering that I should rather regard them who extend their arms to me, than those who turn their backs ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... commandments; it is he who, while the saints work out the work of their own salvation, worketh in them both to will and to do. It is he who giveth power to the faint, and who, to them that have no might, encreaseth strength, so that the poor lifeless, languishing lie-by is made to mount up with eagles' wings, and surmount all these difficulties, with a holy facility, which were simply insuperable, and pure impossibilities. Now the man runs and doth not weary, because Christ draws; and he walks and doth not faint, because Christ, in ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)
... and sing; Mount, but be sober on the wing; Mount up, for heaven is won by prayer, Be sober, for thou art not there. Till death the weary spirit free, Thy God hath said 'tis good for thee To walk by faith, and not by sight, Take it on trust a little while; ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
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