 | 1914 - 1066 pages
...is not making a failure, then the ages as they pass are coming into a larger knowledge of his truth, and "The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." And if this is so, then the present age is the one in which his will is most clearly revealed. Surely... | |
 | 1857 - 520 pages
...faculty of the age, and that * Herschel, Airy, Peacock, \Vhewell, Babbage, Lubbock. the powers as well as the thoughts of men are " widened with the process of the suns." Although this dissertation is headed " A General View of Mathematical and Physical Science," into one... | |
 | 1863 - 448 pages
...escape mistakes for the future. Notwithstanding falls of Roman Empires, and French Revolutions, — " Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose...of men are widened with the process of the suns." While we cling to a faith in progress, let our faith be a reverent faith, ascribing the glory where... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...say with confidence, even of things human— " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. " 1868.] THE SEAMAN a HOME. WIDE let the venturous sea-bird roam, A speck on ocean's bosom cast ; Touch... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1858 - 260 pages
...Changing myself, how can I subscribe an. unchanging creed ? ' Excelsior ' is my motto. I believe that ' through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened by the process of the suns.' And it is vain, therefore, that you seek to tie me to a creed, or to stereotype... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 pages
...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined events,... | |
 | WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1858 - 516 pages
...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma .of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined... | |
 | 1859 - 598 pages
...of man makes its own addition. Again we ask the aid of Mr. Tennyson in ' Locksley Hall :' — • ' Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose...of men are widened with the process of the suns.' The substitution of law for force has indeed altered the relations of the strong and the weak ; the... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
..." is loaded with thoughts of most invigorating and soulstirring power. Such, for instance, as,— " Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose...of men are widened with the process of the suns." • » * • » Again : — " Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose...thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Though the deep heart of existence... | |
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Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. 
