 There is but one temple in the Universe,' says the devout Novalis, ' and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a...  Past and Present - 107. oldalszerző: Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 399 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 138 oldal
...Novalis, ' and that Temple is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high Form. Bending before man is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hands on a human Body.' - " On which ground I would fain carry it farther than most do ; and whereas... | |
 | Leo Hartley Grindon - 1866 - 592 oldal
...correspondence, the body is like the soul, and the soul like the spiritual world. Novalis says truly that "we touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body." Think how the face is the epitome of the body, repeating in little its every organ and every function,... | |
 | Kesavachandra Sena - 1868 - 42 oldal
...beautifully said, " and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before man is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh....touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body." However shocking man's sinfulness may be, his godliness is worthy of homage. If it is true he crawls... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - 1868 - 400 oldal
...infer from this that he did not believe in the existence of angels, but only that Novalis says, " that we touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body." Alas, sometimes the converse is nearer the mark. Sometimes our bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 434 oldal
...the World ; and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh....touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body. — ' Man is a Sun ; his Senses are the Planets. — 1 Man has ever expressed some symbolical Philosophy... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 oldal
...Novalis, ' and that is the Body of ' Man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending ' before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the ' Flesh....touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a ' human body !' This sounds much like a mere flourish of rhetoric ; but it is not so. If well meditated, it will... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1869 - 604 oldal
...in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay our hands upon a human body." No longer does human society consist merely of units unimportant except when... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 434 oldal
...Man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Eevelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven, when we lay our hand on a human body. — ' Man is a Sun ; his Senses are the Planets. — ' Man has ever expressed some symbolical Philosophy... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 408 oldal
...such things. At hearing of which, we all ' wept, and with tears sang Te Deum laudamus ; and has' tened to toll the bells in the Choir.' Stupid blockheads,...Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Super~ naturalism brought home to the very dullest ; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 406 oldal
...such things. At hearing of which, we all ' wept, and with tears sang Te Deum laudamus ; and has' tened to toll the bells in the Choir.' Stupid blockheads,...was and now is not : Oh, all mystery, all pity, all nnite awe and wonder ; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest ; Eternity laid open, and the... | |
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