| Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - American fiction - 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... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - Fourth of July orations - 1866 - 674 pages
...is forced to exclaim with the poet, — " Yet I doubt not 'through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Recall for a moment the discovery of this country, the long delay of colonizing it, the almost miraculous... | |
| Anne Maria Hampton Brewster - American fiction - 1866 - 468 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... | |
| Spiritualism - 1866 - 586 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... | |
| Literature - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 Carlos Martyn - Massachusetts - 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... | |
| 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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