 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 pages
...mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. . . . Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm or little world,...of divinity in us — something that was before the heavens, and owes no homage unto the sun. * This boast, winch Dr. Johnson could not explain, and even... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 412 pages
...mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. . . . Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm or little world,...the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us—something that was before the heavens, and owes no homage unto the sun. * This boast, which Dr.... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1878 - 1046 pages
...that sprouteth into different persons," we kneel in most pious awe, and cry, with Sir Thomas Browne, "There is surely a piece of divinity in us, — something...before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun !" The fatal and invariable mistake of materialism is that it confounds means and steps with causes,... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1878 - 192 pages
...position. Keeping the eye on these realities, we can still say with the author of the Beligio Medici: ' There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage to the sun.' A universe, however clearly mapped out, in which that which is highest in man is omitted,... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1878 - 1046 pages
...pious awe, and cry, with Sir Thomas Browne, "There is surely a piece of divinity in us,—something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun \" The fatal and invariable mistake of materialism is that it confounds means and steps with causes,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. . . . Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world,...of divinity in us — something that was before the heavens, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God. as well as Scripture.... | |
 | Oxford city, high sch. for girls - 1879 - 448 pages
...him the duty of a devout and learned admiration.' ' There is surely a piece of divinity in us. ... Nature tells me I am the image of God as well as Scripture.' Apart from his dogmatic theology Browne has a deep and real faith in a higher moral power working in... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...them, though they are often the excess of some good quality. Jno. Armstrong, Miscellanies, 177o. MAN. THERE is surely a piece of divinity in us — something that was before the heavens, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God as well as Scripture.... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...hundred and sixty. Though the number of the arc do measure my body, it comprehendeth not my mind. Whilst ple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil as...good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet... | |
 | 1881 - 552 pages
...mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. . . . Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm or little world,...of divinity in us — something that was before the heavens, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of Gon, as well as Scripture.... | |
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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction or first lesson,... 
