 God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool; And the ear of man cannot...  New Englander and Yale Review - Pagina 453geredigeerd door - 1872Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 216 pagina’s
...can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet God is law, say the wise, O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 pagina’s
...can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise, O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is... | |
 | 1870 - 452 pagina’s
...can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is Law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all says the fool; For all we have power to see is... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 98 pagina’s
...can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise, O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is... | |
 | 1889 - 1028 pagina’s
...and move, and have our being." Light is his garment. Life is his breath. God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. But if I wished to prove, against those who doubted, Tennyson's belief in a living,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 498 pagina’s
...meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is... | |
 | Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 536 pagina’s
...meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer thnn hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool ; For all we have power to see is... | |
 | 1872 - 816 pagina’s
...be established, it is still His work. Tennyson's beautiful lines deserve a second quotation " God ia law, say the wise, 0 Soul, and let us rejoice, For...He thunder by law, the thunder is still His voice." ARTICLE IV.— THE FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION. THE foundation of moral obligation is one of the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 304 pagina’s
...meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise ; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some : no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1874 - 296 pagina’s
...claim of science, that this mind has its steady method, religion answers, " God is law, say the wise, O soul, and let us rejoice. For if he thunder by law, the thunder is still his voice." Chastened and purified by needed criticism, religion takes up again the strain of ancient piety, and... | |
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