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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. "
The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts - Page 95
by Irving Babbitt - 1910 - 258 pages
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 7

American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...little world, I find myself something more than the great. 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 imago of God as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much, hath...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of Sir Edward Lytton, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Great Britain - 1841 - 306 pages
...little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity to us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. Nature tells me that I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much,...
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Religio Medici: To which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial; a Discourse ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...this he expresses in language of surpassing grandeur. " There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." But this is not all. " Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture: he that understands...
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Religio medici. Its sequel, Christian morals. With resemblant passages from ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1844 - 320 pages
...little world, I find myself something more than the great. 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...
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Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1844 - 240 pages
...little world, I find myself something more than the great. 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...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 24

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1844 - 610 pages
...that tells the heavens they have an end, cannot persuade me / have any. There is a divinity within us; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.' Bear this well in mind, therefore, that ' affections well-placed and dutifully cherished ; friendships...
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Religio medici: Its sequel Christian morals

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1844 - 320 pages
...view, turns round With all its generations. Task. iv. 94. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the suu. Rel. Med. p. 138. Let me not injure the felicity of others, if I say I am as happy as any; mat...
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Characteristics of Literature: Illustrated by the Genius of Distinguished Men

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English literature - 1849 - 288 pages
...finely uttered by the author of the Religio Medici. " There is surely a piece of divinity 3 in us, something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun. Every man truly lives so long as he acts his nature, or in some way makes good the faculties of himself."...
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Knick-knacks from an Editor's Table

Lewis Gaylord Clark - Wit and humor - 1852 - 388 pages
...tells the heavens they have an end, cannot persuade me / have any. There is a divinity within us : something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.' Bear this well in mind, therefore, that ' affections well-placed and dutifully cherished ; friendships...
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 2

sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...little world, I find myself something more than the great. 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...
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