| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the 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... | |
| Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - 1866 - 456 pages
...suns is needed for its glorious ripening, for ' I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.' Each earnest life-labor goes towards this increasing purpose, and each complete existence is as a snowy... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 pages
...nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. 5fet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the 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... | |
| 1866 - 588 pages
...different types of character of different races ; they have their use and time, but as conditions change, and the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns, other and higher forms of religion, better adapted to the altered states and conditions take their... | |
| 1866 - 492 pages
...mellifluous bowers. Say not the languages of Greece and Rome are dead ; if they are they yet speak, and " as the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," we need not fear any material decay in the intelligent pursuit of languages, replete with whatever... | |
| 1866 - 638 pages
...toil, that there has been a real education of the human race conducted slowly but steadily, by which "the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," and which is still in progress. Education, however, is not merely a culture of the intellect, and accordingly... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...which are receiving development from day to day. And so it has been with the human race. Just as " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," just as there have been indisputable extensions of men's intellectual horizon and discoveries of unvoyaged... | |
| William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 486 pages
...let the nineteenth century be the oak. '- For we doubt not, through the ages One increasing purpose runs ; And the thoughts of men are widened With the process of the suns. " ° Wilson's Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 487, 488. CHAPTER XXV. INCIDENTS. " He cometh unto you with a tale... | |
| 1867 - 832 pages
...leading us to purer, wider and nobler views. " For I doubt not thro' the ages one unceasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Why then is history to be the only exception to this law of universal advance? Since our knowledge... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 240 pages
...and completer happiness of the future, — " For I doubt not through the ages One increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened With the process of the suns." Tfc.NNYiJN. VII. " Et viridcm ^Egyptum nigra fsscundat arena, Et diversa ruens septem discurrlt in... | |
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