 | 1881 - 622 pagine
...days, full of devout conviction — ' Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and ceaso to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Thou, O Lord, art more than they.' He can no longer use this language, though he still endeavours to re-convey the meaning of it. And... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1894 - 1066 pagine
...India should come under the shadow of Muhammadan rulers. " 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." He condemns the narrow views of those who imagine that the divine beneficence... | |
 | 1870 - 406 pagine
...intelligence can dictate, let us each yet acknowledge that — " 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. We have but faith ; we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pagine
...ours, 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, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith ; we cannot know : For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 530 pagine
...faith and faith alone embrace, Believing where we cannot prove. 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. THE CREDIBILITY OF VENERABLE BEDE, SAINT AND CONFESSOR, AND OF HIS FOLLOWERS. BY JOSEPH BOULT. IT is... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 pagine
...faith alone, embrace, Believing where WF cannot prove. " Our little systems have their day — They have their day, and cease to be ; They are but broken lights of Thee, And Tnou, O Lord, art more than they." " Our little systems " indeed! — yes, so little when compared... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pagine
...subservience of Knowledge to Faith appears from first to last as the poet's confidence, for he everywhere takes the knowledge of the Heart as that margin of...They are but broken lights of thee, — And thou, О Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pagine
...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, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 236 pagine
...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, 0 Lord, art more than they. We have but faith : we cannot know ; For knowledge is of things we see... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pagine
...and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove : Our little systems have their day ; They have their day and cease to be : They are but broken lights of Thee, And thon, О Lord, art more than they." M'E. PASTORAL RECOLLECTIONS AND GLEANINGS. NO. V. — ТHВ DYING... | |
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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. 
