 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 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 the suns. ;" but that the " purpose" is that of an intelligent and conscious being, and that the " process" is... | |
 | 1852 - 892 pages
...the darkness, Scott unknown, Byron had "not * " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages an increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Tennyson. penned his inspiration," steam had not baffled sea and wind, and re-mapped the land, the... | |
 | John Lalor - 1852 - 382 pages
...against itself is brought to desolation." — LUKU xi. 17. CHAPTER I. THEORIES OF SOCIAL PROGRESS. " Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns." TENNYSON. Different Kinds of Progress.... | |
 | 1853 - 642 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 the suns ;' but that the ' purpose ' is that of an intelligent and conscious being, and that the ' process '... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 468 pages
...that nods and winks behind a slowlydying fire. Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. "What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...tree, But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. Shakspere. Ever through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Tennyson. And though these scenes may seem to careless eyes Irregular, and rough, and unconverted,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 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 "... | |
 | Haölé, George Washington Bates - 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 - 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... | |
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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. 
