Lichts

Hölty sings: "Geh aus deinem Gezelt, Mutter des Tags hervor, und vergülde die wache Welt"; in another passage the last writer thus apostrophizes the sun: "Heil dir, Mutter des Lichts!"

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

It is expected that, in contradistinction to the "Wee Frees," the new Party will be known as the "Auld Lichts."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Various

In “The Twa Herds, ” “Holy Willie’s Prayer, ” “Address to the Unco Guid, ” “The Holy Fair, ” and others, he manifested sympathy with the protest of the so-called “New Light” party, which had sprung up in opposition to the extreme Calvinism and intolerance of the dominant “Auld Lichts.

Introductory Note 1909

As regards the questions of doctrine there were in the church two main parties, known as the Auld Lichts and the New Lichts.

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

Few Auld Lichts, as I have said, went the length of choosing a helpmate for themselves.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

Once the Auld Lichts held property in the square, but other denominations have bought them out of it, and now few of them are even to be found in the main streets that make for the rim of the cup.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

But, as it was, their attachment never got beyond the silhouette stage, from which, in the ethics of the Auld Lichts, a man can draw back in certain circumstances, without loss of honour.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

The Auld Lichts loved their minister, but they saw even more clearly than himself the necessity for his humiliation.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

Auld Lichts would have done in a similar predicament I cannot even conjecture.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

Auld Lichts was on all occasions as sombre as their faces, let it be known that the bride was but one of several in "whites," and that Mag

Auld Licht Idylls 1898