 ... 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
 | Sir George Elliot - 1895 - 160 pages
...those corroding influences which have hitherto reigned supreme in the sphere of theology, as evinced by the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading...hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race of mankind so fearfully and yet exactly described in the Apostle's words as ' having no hope and without... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1900 - 364 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...aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his future, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1900 - 112 pages
...and broken of a superintending design, the blind evolution (I) 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... | |
 | Arthur Cecil Pigou - 1901 - 152 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...and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruption, the dreary hopeless irreligion, the condition of the whole race so fearfully yet exactly... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1902 - 356 pages
...what turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things as if from unreasoning elements and not towards final causes ; the greatness and littleness...prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, corruptions, the dreary hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...faint and broken : i superintending design, the blind evolution of what 'urn out to be great powers or joy To know I 'm farther off from Heav'n Than when...life is to be found io his Littrary RemimsceHces, bis futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of Г"/1. the success of evil, physical pain,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pages
...turn out to be great powers or truths, the progress of things as if from unreasoning elements, not 25 towards final causes; the greatness and littleness...and intensity of sin, the pervading idolatries, the cor- 30 ruptions, the dreary, hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race so fearfully yet... | |
 | Julia Wedgwood - 1907 - 526 pages
...' JH Newman, Apologia pro Vild Sud, 1864. tokens so faint and broken of a superintending design — the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching aims, his short duration — the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1912 - 584 pages
...solve. So far as this planet goes, and our own human race, Cardinal Newman has expressed this sense in the Apologia, and the parallel between his view and...sin, the pervading idolatries, the corruptions, the drearj' hopeless irreligion, that condition of the whole race so fearfully yet exactly described by... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 350 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...pervadIng idolatries, the corruptions, the dreary hopeless 5rreligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's words,... | |
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