 The lust of power, the love of gain, The thousand lures of sin Around him, had no power to stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small, And knows how each man's life affects The spiritual life of all, He...  Friendly Sketches in America - Page 119by William Tallack - 1861 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1846 - 398 pages
...how each man's life affects The spiritual life of all. He walks by faith and not by sight, By faith and not by law ; ' The presence of the wrong or right, . He rather felt than saw.' lie felt that wrong with wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whoso gives the motive, makes... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 pages
...stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small, And knows how each man's life affects The spiritual life of...wrong partakes, That nothing stands alone, That whoso srives the motive, makes His brother's sin his own. And, pausing not for doubtful choice Of evils great... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 300 pages
...when you turned your backs upon the one, and set your faces to the other. CHAPTER X. THE WORLD-COPY. "He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and...presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw." " And be not conformed to this world : but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 300 pages
...when you turned your backs upon the one, and set your faces to the other. CHAPTER X. THE WORLD-COPY. " He walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law j The presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw." " And be not conformed to this world... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1856 - 470 pages
...stain The purity within. With that deep insight which detects All great things in the small, And knows how each man's life affects The spiritual life of...nothing stands alone, That whoso gives the motive, makes And, pausing not for doubtful choice Of evils great or small, He listened to that inward voice Which... | |
 | 1857 - 332 pages
...some even to our view perfectly innocent, which seemed to them in any degree to savor of evil. " They walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not by law ; The presence of the wrong or right They rather felt than saw. "And pausing not for doubtful choice, Of evils great or small, They listened... | |
 | Daniel Pierce Thompson - 1860 - 488 pages
...me to judge them," was her only response; for, in common with all her remarkable sect, " She walk'd by faith, and not by sight — By love, and not by law, — The presence of the wrong or right, She rather felt than saw." Still he had evidently by his kind words and frank declarations, which she... | |
 | Joseph Stratford - 1865 - 448 pages
...! How calm and firm and true, Unspotted by its wrong and crime, He walked the dark world through ! He walked by faith, and not by sight, By love, and...presence of the wrong or right He rather felt than saw." WHITTIEB. r\ EOEGE FOX, the founder of the society " called Quakers O~ by the world, but known to each... | |
 | Society of friends - 1866 - 370 pages
...some even to our view perfectly innocent, which seemed to them in any degree to savour of evil. " They walked by faith and not by sight, By love and not- by law ; The presence of the wrong or right They rather felt than saw. And pausing not for doubtful choice, Of evils great or small, They listened... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1869 - 406 pages
...small, And knows how each man's life affects By love and not by law; The presence of the wrong or right The spiritual life of all, He walked by faith and not by sight, He rather felt than saw. He felt that wrong with wrong partakes, His brother's sin his own. And, pausing... | |
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