 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. [From In Mtmoriam.] STJtOA'G SOJf OF GOD. STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou inadest life in man and brute, Thou inadest Death; and... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 Seiten
...India should come under the shadow of Muhammadan rulers. " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord ! art more than they." He condemns the narrow views of those who imagine that the divine... | |
 | 1870 - 406 Seiten
...intelligence can dictate, let us each yet acknowledge that — " Our little systems have their day — They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, О Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 Seiten
...breaks out in the opening stanzas like one who feels that he stands upon a solid basis of faith. " Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ; " Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death... | |
 | 1850 - 676 Seiten
...breaks out in the opening stanzas like one who feels that he stands upon a solid basis of faith. " Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where WB cannot prove ; " Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou... | |
 | 1850 - 640 Seiten
...wrestling and achieved repose it is akin to the quiet grandeur of the litany of the Church of England : Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove : Thine are these orbs of light and shade ; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death ;... | |
 | 1850 - 602 Seiten
...trust the infinite unknown. Thus in the prefatory poem : — " Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, — And thou, O Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 Seiten
...will give you rest." Here is the solution of all our doubts, and the realisation of all our hopes. Strong Son of God, immortal love, Whom we, that have...cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they. THE CREDIBILITY OF VENERABLE BEDE, SAINT AND CONFESSOR, AND OF HIS... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 Seiten
...Lore ! Whom we, that have not si>cn Thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where WF cannot prove. " Our little systems have their day...cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Tnou, O Lord, art more than they." " Our little systems " indeed! — yes, so little when compared... | |
 | 1850 - 618 Seiten
...the age could have written. We will quote the commencement and close of the introductory poem : '* STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we that have...faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove ; Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are oure( we know not... | |
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Our little systems have their day, / They have their day and cease to be: / They are but broken lights of thee, / And Thou, O Lord, are more than they. 
