| 1860 - 1176 sivua
...that are shaped into a body, into an appearance ? * * This is no metaphor, it is a simple seien tifie fact : we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are Apparitions ; round us, as round 4e veriest spectre, is Eternity ; and to Eternity minutes are as Tears and œons. Corne there not tones... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1862 - 656 sivua
...are shaped into a body, ( into an Appearance ; and that fade away again intoHiir, and In'visibility? This is no metaphor, it is a simple scientific fact...Eternity ; and to ' Eternity minutes are as years and seons. Come there not tones ' of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp-strings, like the Song ' of... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 670 sivua
...scientific fact : we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are Apparitions (or Appearances) ; while round us, as round the veriest spectre, is Eternity...; and to Eternity minutes are as years and aeons. Warrior and war-horse may stately tread the earth, as if it were a firm substance: the earth is but... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1864 - 672 sivua
...and that fade away again into air and Invisibility ? This, he contends, is indeed no metaphor, but a simple scientific fact : we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are Apparitions (or Appearances) j while round us, as round the veriest spectre, is Eternity ; and to Eternity minutes... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 138 sivua
...that fade away again into air, and Invisibility ? This is no metaphor, it is a simple scientilic/ac/ : we start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are...Eternity; and to Eternity minutes are as years and icons. Come there not tones of Lo\e and Faith, as from celestial harp-strings, like the Song of beatified... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1869 - 134 sivua
...are we ourselves but ghosts ? Are we not spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an appearance ? This is no metaphor : it is a simple scientific fact....; and to Eternity minutes are as years and aeons. . . . " O Heaven ! it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry, •each a future... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1869 - 412 sivua
...are we ourselves but ghosts? " Are we not spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an appearance? This is no metaphor: it is a simple scientific fact....Eternity; and to Eternity minutes are as years and seons. . . . " O Heaven ! it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry, each a... | |
| WM. T. HARRIS - 1869 - 396 sivua
...that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance, and that fade away agajp into air and invisibility ? We start out of Nothingness, take figure, and are...Eternity; and to Eternity minutes are as years and aeons. Tones of love and faith, like the songs of beatified souls, come as from celestial harp-strings. And... | |
| 1869 - 600 sivua
...says " Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished, or are perishable." He enquires, " Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial...harp-strings, like the song of beatified Souls?" And, to give only one further excerpt, — in criticising the secular, materialistic tendencies of the age,... | |
| 1869 - 642 sivua
...keeping with the rest of the book, the Author finishes his work with the following ' nebulosity : ' 'It is a simple scientific fact, we start out of Nothingness, take figure (a body), ... a shadow-system gathered round our Me, in which through some moments or years, the Divine... | |
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