 | 1850 - 602 sidor
...intellectual exertion, and destined to carry him on from stage to stage in a broadening civilization. Such are mankind to those who "Doubt not through the...divested of individual character, aims, and pursuits, ¡md drilled into parallelogram uniformity, until it impart to restless humanity Wordsworth's characteristic... | |
 | 1850 - 744 sidor
...of the just man, which ehineth more and more unto the perfect day. And why should it not be so ? " The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," and in widened thought there is a possibility, at least, for increase of wisdom. The eternal verities... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 274 sidor
...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 overruled... | |
 | 1853 - 642 sidor
...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 overruled... | |
 | 1857 - 520 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1858 - 516 sidor
...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined events,... | |
 | WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH - 1858 - 516 sidor
...unprofitable, and are belying, so far as you are concerned, the practical as well as poetical truth, that the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Rejecting, he says, the metaphysical dogma .of free will, and the theological dogma of predestined... | |
 | 1861 - 634 sidor
...oracularly. We judge him not to be a disciple of that inflated school. While it is true enough that " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns," none but an incurable egotist will dissent from the poet's confession ; " Knowledge comes, but Wisdom... | |
 | 1866 - 492 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
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the thoughts of men are " widened with the process of the suns," but that there are recurring cycles of improvement and decay. 
