 | Unitarian pulpit - 1858 - 806 pages
...truth in store for us ; — well to remember always, that " 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 ;" — well to remember that God "is more than they," and that our highest formulas are still but imperfect... | |
 | John Parry - 1858 - 772 pages
...gwirioneddau, fel Duw, yn anamgyffredadwy a thragwyddol. "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." Yr oedd dylanwad Chalmers ar grefydd ei wlad a'i oes, trwy ei bregethau... | |
 | John Parry - 1858 - 768 pages
...y gwirioneddau, fel Duw, yn anamgyffredadwy a thragwyddoL "Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of tliee, And thou, О Lord, art more than they." Yr oedd dylanwad Chalmers ar grefydd ei wlad a'i oes,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 474 pages
...LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION, EDINBURGH. " Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be ; They are but broken...Thee, And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they." Tennyson. PREFACE. I SHOULD not have presumed to choose for any lectures of mine such a subject as that which... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1859 - 520 pages
...we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them thine. Our little systems have their day ; They have their 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... | |
 | 1860 - 860 pages
...by changes lie those advocated in these Essays and Review. 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. WDW WHEAT AND TAKES. CHAPTER XXTT. A NEW PROFESSOR. AMONG the trim buildings that nestled round the... | |
 | Ellen Courtauld - 1860 - 488 pages
...sing, in endless morn of light. LM CCCCXXIX. TENNYSOir. 1 OUB 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. 2 We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1860 - 890 pages
...many places in this volume. We cite a few instances : — " 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." True, of all human systems ; but why does the poct forgct the Bible, that... | |
 | Henry James (of New York.) - 1861 - 224 pages
...with one mind and one mouth," glorifying One Blessed Name. 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. Fifth Sunday in Lent, 1861. THE OLD AND NEW THEOLOGY. PART I. summary form which the gospel took at... | |
 | 1861 - 394 pages
...views are, as he believes, in the main expressed by him. ' 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.' THE Preface to the Book of Common Prayer is careful to assert an identity between the Church of England... | |
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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, art more than they. 
