| Society of Friends - 1846 - 398 pages
...Ho walked the dark earth through ! The lust of rower, the love of gain ! The thousand lures of bin Around him had no power to stain' The purity within....each man's life affects The spiritual life of all. He walks by faith and not by sight, By faith and not by law ; ' The presence of the wrong or right, .... | |
| William Tallack - Religion - 1861 - 326 pages
...our own poet, Whittier : — THE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME. The Quaker of the olden time! How calm, and firm, and true ; Unspotted by its wrong and crime,...insight which detects All great things in the small, And kuowa how each man's life affects The spiritual life of all, He walked by faith, and not by sight ;... | |
| Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...eternal sunshine lies ; Winning our hearts by a blessed guile, With that infant look and angel smile. The lust of power, the love of gain, The thousand...Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. WHITTIEE. [See also ENUELLENUE—GOODNESS.] INSTRUCTION—(See EDUcATION.) INTEMPERANCE —(See TEMPERANcE.)... | |
| Joseph Stratford - 1865 - 448 pages
...they who share His cross shall also share His throne. SP " The Quaker of the olden time ! How calm and firm and true, Unspotted by its wrong and crime, He walked the dark world through ! He walked by faith, and not by sight, By love, and not by law ; The presence of the... | |
| 1874 - 968 pages
...calm, and tinn, and true, Unspotted by its wron'f and crime, He walked the dark earth through. The last of power, the love of gain, The thousand lures of...Around him, had no power to stain The purity within." Near Crane Court lived a noted Puritan. I refer to Mr. PraiseGod Barebone, leather-seller, preacher... | |
| 1879 - 692 pages
...free indeed." I may conclude with Whittier's lines : — " The Quaker of the olden time — How calm, and firm, and true ' Unspotted by its wrong and crime,...walked the dark earth through. The lust of power, the-love of gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain. The purity within. "... | |
| American literature - 1867 - 334 pages
...OLDEN TIME. BY JOHN <!. V II ITTIKIl. The Quaker of the Olden Time !— How calm, and firm, and true l Unspotted by its wrong and crime, He walked the dark earth through l The lust of power, the love of gain, The thousand lures of Bin Around him had no power to stain The... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1868 - 428 pages
...spirit — is involved and imparted in the form of an impalpable principle. The world does not look "With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small, And learn how each one's life affects The spiritual life. 0} all." Hereditary transmission is regulated... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 pages
...!—and we who may not share THE QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME. THE Quaker of the olden time !— How calm and firm and true, Unspotted by its wrong and crime,...in the small, And knows how each man's life affects By love and not by law; The presence of the wrong or right The spiritual life of all, He walked by... | |
| William Henry Chase - Calendars - 1869 - 428 pages
...QUAKER OF THE OLDEN TIME. AX ABGUMETTT FOB FBEE PBODUCE. The Quaker of the olden time ! — How calm, and firm, and true ! , Unspotted by its wrong and crime, He walked the dark earth through 1 The lust of power, the love of gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain... | |
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