 ... 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
 | James Hastings - 2004 - 344 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...futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, tire success of evil, physical pain, mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin, the pervading... | |
 | Mark Bosco - 2005 - 216 pages
...sensibility threaded throughout Greene's understanding of the human predicament. Newman's musing on "the greatness and littleness of man, his far-reaching...mental anguish, the prevalence and intensity of sin which is beyond human solution" became the epigraph for Greene's travel book, The Lawless Roads, but... | |
 | Cardinal John Henry Newman - 2007 - 293 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...elements, not towards final causes, the greatness and litdeness of man, his far-reaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung over his futurity, the... | |
 | 1908 - 792 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 irréligion, that condition of the whole race, so fearfully yet exactly described in the Apostle's... | |
 | Arthur Cecil Pigou - 1960 - 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...far-reaching aims, his short duration, the curtain hung 1 A Blot in the 'Scutcheon. over his futurity, the disappointments of life, the defeat of good, the... | |
 | Herbert George Wood - 1934 - 274 pages
...to be great powers and truths" may be evidence that God leads the blind by a way they know not, and "the progress of things, as if from unreasoning elements, not towards final causes" may bear witness to an unconscious teleology more impressive in character than the natural order in... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1864 - 812 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 elements, not towards first causes,' &c. ' All this," he says, ' is a vision to dazzle and appal.' The appalling vision suggests... | |
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