| Lionel Arthur Tollemache (hon.) - 1884 - 456 páginas
...the method much is involved.* To a like effect, we may quote other passages from the same poem, — " We have but faith, we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see." * It is remarkable how systematically the poet bases his belief in a future life on natural religion,... | |
| Mrs. Elizabeth (Leifchild) Baldwin Brown - 1884 - 228 páginas
...by the dim religious light around it. He might, perhaps, have taken Tennyson's words upon his lips: We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from Thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. PUBLISHED WEITINGS. IN the following... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 444 páginas
...thejr day and cease to be ; They, are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, oh Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from Thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more... | |
| Maria Wilhelmina Macdowall - 1884 - 352 páginas
...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 see ; And yet we trust it comes from Thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow ! LAY OF WALA. We here annex... | |
| James Locke Batchelder - 1884 - 402 páginas
...the only alternative choice or desire of the soul. That peril in choice is involved in its freedom. We have but Faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things, we see ; And, yet we trust it comes from Thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. * And it may be expected,... | |
| Elizabeth Baldwin Brown - 1884 - 218 páginas
...the dim religious light around it. He might, perhaps, -have taken Tennyson's words upon his lips : We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from Thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. PUBLISHED WRITINGS. IN the... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 páginas
...holiest manhood, thou : Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours to make them thine. \Ve have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee A beam in darkness; let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to... | |
| Morris Kline - 1964 - 513 páginas
...that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. . . We have but faith; we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness; let it grow. While some of the perplexed merely... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 628 páginas
...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 see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more... | |
| 1862 - 44 páginas
...bore testimony to the deep devotion of his life, and seemed but to renew man's humble confession, " Wo have but faith; we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it conies from Thee, A beam in darkness; let it grow." Hugh Miller died, by his own... | |
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