 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 444 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. . . . me, ever whispering unto me that... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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. . . . me, ever whispering unto me that... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Literary Criticism - 1900 - 364 pages
...great wonder, and the humblest no less than the greatest : " There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." The progress of each ordinary day was to him miraculous — darkness and light, the mystery of sleep, the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 450 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... | |
 | Orlando Jay Smith - Fate and fatalism - 1902 - 344 pages
...that which hath lived from eternity. 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. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end. Hume: The soul, if immortal, existed before... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1902 - 354 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 Gen. i. 27. the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus... | |
 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 pages
...world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity within 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... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - Medicine - 1907 - 458 pages
...World, I find myself something more than the great one. There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. — SIB THOS. BROWNE, MD GALVANI, FOUNDER OF ANIMAL ELECTRICITY. IT is often thought and only too often... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - Biology - 1908 - 272 pages
...which nature cannot take away. "There is surely," said Sir Thomas Browne, "a piece of divinity in us; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." According to Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, the doyen of evolutionists, the Nestor of the Darwinian camp,... | |
 | Plato - Greek literature - 1909 - 260 pages
...immortality, and would assent to the dictum of Sir Thos. Browne, " There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." 2 See my note ad loc. It is to be noticed that similar expressions are used in a similar context in... | |
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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. 
