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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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Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Story of Spiritual Transformation and ...

Deepak Chopra - Health & Fitness - 1991 - 228 pages
...was inside ourselves, because in another place he said, "There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." Priya's mother is a little worried that her daughter looks at rugs, glasses, and chairs as if they...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...a place, not to live, but to die in. 1617 Religio Medici There is surely a piece of divinity in us, omething like prophetic strain. 7509 The Judgement of Martin Bucer I owe 1618 Religlo Medici We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits...
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Elemental Mind

Kathleen V. Skene - Poetry - 1999 - 68 pages
...Death makes life bearable, nothing more. ELEMENTAL MIND There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Sir Thomas Browne All things, oh priests, are on fire ... Buddha I open fire - window to wall to roof...
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The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations

Martin H. Manser - Religion - 2001 - 524 pages
...closing over him in darkness forever. Henry Ward Beecher There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Sir Thomas Browne Christ gave us proof of immortality and yet it would hardly seem necessary that one...
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Philosophy of Nature

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Philosophy of nature - 2002 - 400 pages
...overlooked by those who are unaware of its origin. e. THE NOTION 'There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun.' — Sir Thomas Browne. 1 Baillie's translation pp. 789-808. 2 There are competent surveys of the main...
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Not of this World: A Treasury of Christian Mysticism

James S. Cutsinger - Religion - 2003 - 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. Nature tells me I am the image of God as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath...
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Towards Higher Consciousness - Spiritual Insights

136 pages
...evidence of things not seen. New Testament Hebrews Chp.ll.vl 3. There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 Religio Medici 4. Then was my Soul my only All to me, A living endless...
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I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau - Literary Collections - 2007 - 525 pages
...such writers as Sir Thomas Browne in Religio Medici— "There is surely a peece of Divinity in us; something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun" — and John Milton's Paradise Lost 9:1009-1011: "they feel / Divinity within them breeding wings /...
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Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, Volume 61

1954 - 398 pages
...at the same time, did not wish to sacrifice the spiritual world, or that "piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun." Browne, living in a time that was, as Basil Willey calls it, Janus-faced, looking back to the Middle...
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