| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 páginas
...the vast problems of human nature cannot be dismissed with a stereotyped " I believe." He sings— There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds ; and so there does, the simple fact being that there is no ground whatever for faith in a creed. With... | |
| 1850 - 528 páginas
...ever strove to make it true : " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds ; At last he beat his music out, There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Now, we repeat, that such language as this is infinitely mischievous. Such things are caught up as... | |
| 1850 - 1052 páginas
...ever strove to make it true : " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds ; At last he beat his music out, There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Now, we repeat, that such language as this is infinitely mischievous. Such things are caught up as... | |
| 1876 - 602 páginas
...seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson'» celebrated paradox— " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," —by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenäum notice of him, September... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 páginas
...ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgement blind, He faced the spectres... | |
| 1853 - 614 páginas
...ever strove to mako ¡t true. " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds "•)• A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts, the... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 538 páginas
...touched a jarring lyre at first, " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.''^ A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts, the cleverness... | |
| 1855 - 388 páginas
...And yet our poet would not that man should shrink from thinking and reasoning for himself. He says— There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Reason has not been given to man as a snare, a trap to catch his faltering steps. If rightly used,... | |
| East India college - 1856 - 480 páginas
...But ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he teat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. poetry in general. To particular poems, more especially his " In Memoriam," there have been raised... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1857 - 540 páginas
...ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres... | |
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