 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 sider
...humanity. Or as Tennyson puts it : — For I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. That this is the true solution of the riddle of humanity may, I think, be abundantly proved from the... | |
 | William Chambers - 1854 - 560 sider
...make it will the time ever be : ' For we see that through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.' THE INGAS OP PERU. IN a former Paper, treating of the ancient monuments of America, allusion was made... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 sider
...and winks behind a slowlydying fire. 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. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho' the deep heart of existence beat... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 414 sider
...point of our Philosophy.] [Knowledge grows, and] through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the Suns. BOOK I. OF IDEAS IN GENERAL. Quce adhuc inventa sunt in Scientiis, ea hujusmodi sunt ut Notionibus... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 sider
...shall slumber, lapt in universal law. For I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, but the... | |
 | Simeon Nash - 1859 - 478 sider
...CHAPTER XXXVI. SOCIAL PROGRESS. "Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns." SUCH is the language of the poet in reference to human progress, and it is no less the doctrine of... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 sider
...boastful temper of an age of physical discovery. He exults in endless development. He tells us that "The thoughts of men are widen'd with the process...tinged with this feeling. He loves to look onward oyer vast prospects of future time, and to imagine the heavenly order growing more clear and perfect.... | |
 | 1862 - 568 sider
...—Who is the "author of the following lines ? — "Through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns; Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore. And the individual withers, and the... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 590 sider
...OF ATHENS ,, 468 INTBODUCTION. 1 Yet I donbt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns." TENNYSON. THl SUBJECT PBOPOSED ITS UNITY — PROVINCE OF HISTORY — DISTINGUISHED FROM PHILOSOPHY... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1865 - 386 sider
...works out by their agency : — " Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns." No pains will be spared to make this history scholarlike in substance and popular in style. It will... | |
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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. 
