| George Gilfillan - Covenanters - 1853 - 300 pages
...moves in the advancing wheels of society ; — not only that " through the ages an Increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of tire suns ; " but that the " purpose" is that of an intelligent and conscious being, and that the "... | |
| George Washington Bates, Haölé - Hawaii - 1854 - 506 pages
...misapprehend the laws of human progress, which show " That ever through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." They exhibit a skepticism, ae blind as it is discouraging, in regard to the forces and functions of... | |
| John Mulligan - 1854 - 326 pages
...additional strong syllabic. Example: "Yet I | doubt not | through the | ages | one in | creasing | purpose | runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." DACTYLIC MEASURES. — (44) Dactylic measures are very rare in our language; so much so that we doubt... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle... | |
| Universities and colleges - 1857 - 818 pages
...Future, and proclaims as his creed, that he " — Doubts not through the ages one mcreasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns/' All through his earlier poems we have felt an undertone of sympathy with Humanity ; but here he comes... | |
| American essays - 1911 - 994 pages
...and understand, would hesitate to say, — Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Beneath the fashionable criticisms of the church, this other strange assumption lies, that the church's... | |
| Lutheran Church - 1857 - 398 pages
...future, and proclaims as his creed, that he ••Doubts not through the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." All through his earlier poems we have felt an undertone of sympathy with Humanity ; but here he comes... | |
| American essays - 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... | |
| William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 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 sum.** Disappointed in love, and sickened in hope of civilized life, the speaker dreams, for a moment,... | |
| Art - 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... | |
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