 ... their aimless courses, their random achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of longstanding facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress...  The Living Age - Page 5301909Full view - About this book
 | 1909 - 844 pages
...view and Tennyson's is sufficiently instructive to make it worth while to quote the passage in fall: To consider the world in its length and breadth. its...pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreliglon, that condition of the whole race so fearfully yet exactly described by the Apostle, "having... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 880 pages
...broken, of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truth*, the progress of things as if from unreasoning elements,...duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointment of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 328 pages
...broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great truths, not toward final causes, the greatness and littleness of man,...idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary, hopeless irreligion ." We need not go any further. This is seducing writing, because it ' plays on a certain kind of melancholy... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 438 pages
...faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths ; the progress of things as if from unreasoning...of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary, hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...and broken, of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning...greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims, his'short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1880 - 56 pages
...and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution (!) of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things as if from unreasoning...greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims and short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of... | |
 | 1881 - 858 pages
...faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths ; the progress of things as if from unreasoning...of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary, hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole... | |
 | Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 pages
...faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things as if from unreasoning...farreaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung oyer his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Woodhouse - 1883 - 264 pages
...living world, and see no reflection of its Creator. To consider the world in its length and breadth, the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching...duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1884 - 414 pages
...faint and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution of what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things, as if from unreasoning...mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin, 1 Grammar of Assent, p. 391. H the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreligion,... | |
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