| George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...conclusions, dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds : He fought bis doubts and gathered strength ; lie would not make his judgment blind : He faced the spectres of... | |
| 1855 - 502 pages
...earnest doubt which we meet with. Our time here demands a faithful valor beyond that of chivalry. ' There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.' " There may, in our quiet domestic life, arise temptations to mental cowardice as severe as ever prompted... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1855 - 540 pages
...earnest doubt which we meet with. Our time here demands a faithful valor beyond that of chivalry. " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." There may, in our quiet domestic life, arise temptations to mental cowardice as severe as ever prompted... | |
| 1854 - 500 pages
...and poet to our hearts : — " Perplex'd in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he heat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Other pieces written in sorrow, pieces of peculiar poetic excellence, we intended to notice*, but,... | |
| East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...But ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. poetry in general. To particular poems, more especially his "In Memoriam," there have been raised up... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1858 - 424 pages
...conclusions, dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds! He fonght his doubts and gathered strength ; He would not make his jndgment blind; He faced the spectors... | |
| 1859 - 534 pages
...knew who wrote of his friend : " Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out, There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me than in half the creeds." The New Priest in Conception Bay. Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co. This novel has at least one recommendation,... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1859 - 1136 pages
...received by tradition ; and we can accept, in their true significance, the words of the poet-laureate : " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Similar is the same poet's description of the acquisition of true faith : " He fought his doubts and... | |
| 1860 - 890 pages
..."Then we will doubt everything." And Mr. Tennyson, as the minstrel of this whole sect, exclaims, — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." But those who adopt this view should not blind themselves to the fact, that, to all practical purposes,... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 pages
...inspiration from the Niagara acclivities of his spiritual organization. He could not say, with Tennyson — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." He was not enough critical and reasonable (or philosophical) to engender and fearlessly to entertain a... | |
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