| Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1927 - 296 pages
...Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-doomed City of God; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and...reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish. 'Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost? The English Johnson longed,... | |
| George Preston Mains - Apologetics - 1928 - 280 pages
...this "fair universe," even "in its meanest provinces as in very deed the stardomed city of God : that through every star, through every grass-blade, and...reveals him to the wise, hides him from the foolish." Mrs. Browning, of most sensitive spiritual vision, says: "Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common... | |
| John Herman Randall (Jr.) - Civilization - 1926 - 672 pages
...through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time- Vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish." ra "We live in succession," wrote the confident Emerson, "in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 650 pages
...universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed city of God ; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and...reveals him to the wise, hides him from the foolish.' —Ib. p. 274. All that we sec, and feel, and hear, and do, are but phenomena, appearances of God.... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 548 pages
...Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-doomed City of God; that through every star, through every grassblade, and...reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish. 'Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost? The English Johnson longed,... | |
| Philip Hayward - Art - 1998 - 252 pages
...therefof, is in very deed the star-domed city of God; that through every star and every blade of grass, and most through every living soul, the glory of a...reveals Him to the Wise, hides Him from the foolish. In LT 332 of 1883, this formulation occurs: ...if at the same time you wandered through the cornfields... | |
| Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 pages
...Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and...reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish. "Again, could any thing be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost? The English Johnson longed,... | |
| Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 488 pages
...is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and through every Living Soul, the glory of a present...reveals Him to the wise, — hides Him from the foolish. Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic ghost ? The English Johnson longed,... | |
| 1897 - 472 pages
...have to do is to pull aside the curtains of the ordinary and looking long and carefully behold nature. "But Nature which is the Time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise hides Him from the foolish." To Carlyle there were two and only two absolutely self-luminous beings in the whole universe of beings,... | |
| American literature - 1921 - 386 pages
...con meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. •HI, Anthology, p. 233. nature, which is the time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish." * • * For Matter, were it never so despicable, is Spirit, the manifestation of Spirit: • * * The... | |
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