 | 1850 - 744 lapas
...of the just man, which ehineth more and more unto the perfect day. And why should it not be so ? " The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," and in widened thought there is a possibility, at least, for increase of wisdom. The eternal verities... | |
 | 1857 - 520 lapas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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...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 hardening... | |
 | 1861 - 634 lapas
...oracularly. We judge him not to be a disciple of that inflated school. While it is true enough that " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," none but an incurable egotist will dissent from the poet's confession ; " Knowledge comes, but Wisdom... | |
 | 1862 - 610 lapas
...now, can scarcely be more full of temptation and danger, than has been the lot of others before us. ' The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns,' and never does the Church of God so completely prove the reality of her divine mission, as when she... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 638 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 492 lapas
...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... | |
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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. 
