 | Society of Friends - 1846 - 398 pages
...gain ! The thousand lures of bin Around him had no power to stain' The purity within. With that deep insight, which detects All great things in the small,...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, .... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1850 - 408 pages
...gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small,...presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw. He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whoso srives the motive, makes... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight, which detects All great things in the small,...presence of the wrong or right, He rather felt than saw. He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whoso gives the motive, makes... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight, which detects All great things in the small,...presence of the wrong or right, He rather felt than saw. He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whoso gives the motive, makes... | |
 | John Cumming - Eschatology - 1854 - 300 pages
...when you turned your backs upon the one, and set your faces to the other. CHAPTER X. THE WORLD-COPY. "He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and...presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw." " And be not conformed to this world : but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye... | |
 | John Cumming - Eschatology - 1854 - 300 pages
...when you turned your backs upon the one, and set your faces to the other. CHAPTER X. THE WORLD-COPY. " He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law j The presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw." " And be not conformed to this world... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1855 - 436 pages
...gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small,...presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw. He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whoso gives the motive, makes... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1857 - 332 pages
...some even to our view perfectly innocent, which seemed to them in any degree to savor of evil. " They walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law ; The presence of the wrong or right They rather felt than saw. "And pausing not for doubtful choice, Of evils great or small, They listened... | |
 | Daniel Pierce Thompson - American literature - 1860 - 488 pages
...me to judge them," was her only response; for, in common with all her remarkable sect, " She walk'd by faith, and not by sight — By love, and not by law, — The presence of the wrong or right, She rather felt than saw." Still he had evidently by his kind words and frank declarations, which she... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 360 pages
...gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small,...presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw. He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whoso gives the motive, makes... | |
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With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small. And knows how each man's life affects The spiritual life of all, He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law ; The presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw. 
