 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1909 - 254 pages
...finde my felfe fomething more than the great. There is furely a peece of Divinity in us, fomething that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. Nature tels me I am the Image of God as well as Scripture ; he that underftands not thus much, hath... | |
 | Irving Babbitt - Authors, French - 1912 - 450 pages
...absorption of man into nature. "There is surely," says Sir Thomas Browne, " a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the Sun." Brunetiere differs from Sir Thomas Browne in that he seems to have arrived at the notion of this supersensuous... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1912 - 420 pages
...little World, I find my self 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... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 672 pages
...my altitude; for I am above Atlas's shoulders. . . . There is surely a piece of divinity in us — something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun." The Religio Medici, however, gives, not the Elizabethan, but the Puritan, definition of the world as "... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 678 pages
...my altitude ; for I am above Atlas's shoulders. . . . There is surely a piece of divinity in us — something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun." The Religio Medici, however, gives, not the Elizabethan, but the Puritan, definition of the world as "... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1913 - 624 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... | |
 | Ethics - 1913 - 282 pages
...the literal truth, to use the words of Sir Thomas Browne, that "there is a piece of divinity in us ; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." And when this is realized, how idle becomes the demand for an external sanction, a promise or a threat,... | |
 | Horace James Bridges - Christianity - 1916 - 312 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. . . . He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin... | |
 | Irving Babbitt - Romanticism - 1919 - 460 pages
...speculative as the counter assertion of Sir Thomas Browne that "there is surely a piece of divinity in us; something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." Furthermore this latter sense of the gap between man and nature seems to be more fully justified by... | |
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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. 
