 | 1850 - 744 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 520 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1862 - 610 pagina’s
...now, can scarcely be more full of temptation and danger, than has been the lot of others before us. ' The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns,' and never does the Church of God so completely prove the reality of her divine mission, as when she... | |
 | 1866 - 638 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) - 1867 - 730 pagina’s
...succeeding generation (in an advancing country like our own) is in advance of that which preceded it ; " the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Let us then be true and earnest in our desire to see that in England, art and science teachings are... | |
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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. 
