Planchette: Or, The Despair of ScienceRoberts Brothers, 1869 - 404 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 270 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
الصفحة 379 - GOD speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, that He may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
الصفحة 275 - There shall be a great multitude which no man can number, of all nations and kindreds, and people and tongues...
الصفحة 361 - Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours, And they must have their food. Our childhood sits, Our simple childhood, sits upon a throne That hath more power than all the elements.
الصفحة 381 - And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me ; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein ; and he spread it before me ; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
الصفحة 216 - Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we ' not only carry each a future Ghost within him ; but are, in ' very deed, Ghosts ! These Limbs, whence had we them ; this ' stormy Force ; this life-blood with its burning Passion ? They ' are dust and shadow ; a Shadow-system gathered round our ME ; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine 1 Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.
الصفحة 382 - And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head ; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem...
الصفحة 217 - Thus, like a God-created, firebreathing Spirit-host, we emerge from the Inane; haste stormfully across the astonished Earth; then plunge again into the Inane. Earth's mountains are levelled, and her seas filled up, in our passage: can the Earth, which is but dead and a vision, resist Spirits which have reality and are alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped-in; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van.
الصفحة 314 - Moreover, something is or seems, That touches me with mystic gleams, Like glimpses of forgotten dreams — 'Of something felt, like something here; Of something done, I know not where; Such as no language may declare.
الصفحة 198 - I do not think he is entitled to say that his molecular groupings and his molecular motions explain everything. In reality they explain nothing. The utmost he can affirm is the association of two classes of phenomena, of whose real bond of union he is in absolute ignorance. The problem of the connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the pre-scientific ages.