 | 1876 - 602 Seiten
...It 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 Athenccum notice of him, September... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 272 Seiten
...ever strove to make it true : Perplexed in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. f 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...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... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1851 - 1010 Seiten
...to crack, which cogitation ended at least in a doubt leaning to her side of the question, and — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," fo at least says the poet of the heart, Tennyson ; " Nelly, tell me, are you going to remain at , or... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1851 - 336 Seiten
...the Temple."— COLBRIDOB. | " 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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1882 - 446 Seiten
...to a higher and grander faith. Even that couplet of his which freethinkers so delight to quote— " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," is always sadly misapplied by them. They should read on as follows:— " He fought his doubts and gather'd... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 538 Seiten
...ever strove to make it true. " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music nut. 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... | |
 | Society of Friends. Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting - 1858 - 124 Seiten
...perfect, and that our only duty is implicitly to receive the lessons of our catechisms. — Ib. TIIEBE lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. — TENNYSON. 'Tis the sublime of man, Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves Parts and proportions... | |
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1854 - 174 Seiten
...Heaven, refuse : foi you will not find Him by that path. Let mf cap your Homer with Tennyson : — " 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 Seiten
...conclusions, dreading to face the consequences of doubt, will speak thus harshly and unworthily of it. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds : He fought bis doubts and gathered strength ; lie would not make his judgment blind : He faced the... | |
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
