 ... natures who have shaped the fortunes of the world, we escape from the littlenesses which cling to the round of common life, and our minds are tuned in a higher and nobler key. For the rest, and for those large questions which I touched in connection...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 194by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1866Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 298 pages
...antecedents the most apposite mislead us. We live in times of great and startling change, and none can say what will be after us. What opinions, what convictions...prevailing on the earth if he and it live out together another halfcentury even, none but a very bold man would undertake to conjecture. Certainly we are... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pages
...repeated Mr. Froude, in his lecture at the Royal Institution, " in times of change, and none can say what will be after us. What opinions, what convictions,...only a very bold man would undertake to conjecture." We ourselves are not bold enough to conjecture. We cannot say whether we shall find faith or not. We... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...repeated Mr. Froude, in his lecture at the Royal Institution, " in times of change, and none can say what will be after us. What opinions, what convictions,...only a very bold man would undertake to conjecture." We ourselves are not bold enough to conjecture. We cannot say whether we shall find faith or not. We... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1868 - 458 pages
...large questions which I touched in connection with Mr. Buckle, we live in times of disintegration, and none can tell what will be after us. What opinions...undertake to conjecture ! ' The time will come,' said Liehtenberg, in scorn at the materialising tendencies of modem thought ; ' the time will come when... | |
 | mrs. A D Pollard - 1870 - 312 pages
...mislead us, because the conditions of human problems never repeat themselves. None can say what will come after us. What opinions, what convictions, the infant...only a very bold man would undertake to conjecture." So says Mr. Froude; and his ideas are coming true, for does it not surprise one that Lady Michella... | |
 | mrs. A D Pollard - 1870 - 314 pages
...mislead us, because the conditions of human problems never repeat themselves. None can say what will come after us. What opinions, what convictions, the infant...only a very bold man would undertake to conjecture." So says Mr. Froude ; and his ideas are coming true, for does it not surprise one that Lady Michella... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1873 - 540 pages
...large questions which I touched in connection with Mr. Buckle, we live in times of disintegration, and none can tell what will be after us. "What opinions,...time will come when the belief in God will be as the tales with which old women frighten' children ; when the world will be a machine, the ether a gas,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1873 - 686 pages
...of disintegration, and none can tell what will be after us. What opinions—what convictions—the infant of to-day will find prevailing on the earth,...time will come when the belief in God will be as the tales with which old women frighten children; when the world will be a machine, the ether a gas, and... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1873 - 552 pages
...large questions which I touched in connection with Mr. Buckle, we live in times of disintegration, and none can tell what will be after us. What opinions,...very bold man would undertake to conjecture. " The t;me will come," said Lichtenberg, in scorn at the materializing tendencies of modern thought, —... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 328 pages
...repeated Mr. Froude, in his lecture at the Royal Institution, " in times of change, and none can say what will be after us. What opinions, what convictions,...only a very bold man would undertake to conjecture." We ourselves are not bold enough to conjecture. We cannot say whether we shall find faith or not. We... | |
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