 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1882 - 220 pages
...Though the number of the ark do measure my body, it comprehendeth not my mind. 'Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself...than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity jn us ; jama, thing that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto-the sun. Nature tells me,T... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity and culture - 1884 - 190 pages
...position. Keeping the eye on these realities, we can still say with the author of the Heligio Medici : ' There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage to the sun.' A universe, however clearly mapped out, in which that which is highest in man is omitted,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...surface that tells the heavens it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any: . . . whilst I study to find , nm the image of God, as well as Scripture: he that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...I should dissent myself." The genuineness of his thinking is plain from the following sentences : " There is surely a piece of divinity in us — something that was before the heavens, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1885 - 906 pages
...• By the wny. Sir Thomas Browne, another of the great triflers, hod s:tid long before Wordsworth, " There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the element«, and fiR-fi no homage to the «un." day, as though ho feared lest the worms might find a... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1886 - 542 pages
...Though the number of the ark do measure my body, it comprehendeth not my mind. Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself...Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man. Let me not injure the felicity... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...Though the number of the arc do measure rny body, it comprehendeth not my mind. Whilst I study to find sun's courtiers, to attend at his morning levees. We hold the good hours of the dawn introduction or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man. Let me not injure tlie felicity... | |
 | Edward Dwight Walker - Reincarnation - 1888 - 696 pages
...— EMERSON. For men to tell how human life began Is hard : for who himself beginning knew. MILTON. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, — something...before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of uo end. — Sin THOMAS BEOWNE. For of the soul the body... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1889 - 466 pages
...comprehendeth not my mind : whilst I study to find how I am a Microcosm, or little World, I find my self something more than the great. There is surely a piece...homage unto the Sun. Nature tells me I am the Image Gen. i. 27. of GOD, as well as Scripture : he that understands not thus much, hath not his introduction... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1839 - 204 pages
...Though the number of the arc do measure my body it coraprehendeth not my mind. Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the E— 32 great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and... | |
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Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or 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. 
