In the poorest cottage are Books ; is one BOOK, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him... Life: A Book for a Quiet Hour ... - Page 159by Cunningham Geikie - 1868 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1839 - 636 pages
...come into the world ; I'ome to be household furniture in every habitation of the civilized world 1 In the poorest cottage are Books ; is one BOOK, wherein...day, for the eye that will look well, the Mystery of Kxistence reflects itself, if not resolved, yet revealed, and prophetically emblemed : if not to the... | |
| 1839 - 598 pages
...come into the world ; ,-ome to be household furniture in every habitation of the civilized world ? In the poorest cottage are Books ; is one BOOK, wherein...day, for the eye that will look well, the Mystery of inxistence reflects itself, if not resolved, yet revealed, and prophetically emblemed : if not to the... | |
| 1840 - 468 pages
...Literature, and not merely a great collection of hooks ? We discovered it through our having a BIBLE, that " one BOOK wherein for several thousands of years the...itself, if not resolved, yet revealed, and prophetically emhlemed ; if not to the satisfying of the outward sense, yet to the opening of the inward sense, which... | |
| 1880 - 506 pages
...words concerning that book we still love dearest and best — " In the poorest cottage is one book wherein, still, to this day, for the eye that will...of existence reflects itself, if not resolved, yet reveakd and prophetically emblemed ; if not to the satisfying of the outward sense, yet to the opening... | |
| 1911 - 856 pages
...know no more, their Bible true. "ln the poorest cottage," said Thomas Carlyle. "is one Book, wherein the spirit of man has found light and nourishment,...interpreting response to whatever is deepest in him." "im this Book," says the aged grandmother, in Tennyson's poem — "in this Book, little Annie, the... | |
| Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...come into the world; come, to the household furniture in every habitation of the civilized world ? In the poorest cottage are Books: is one BOOK, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit_of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...have come into ihe world; come to the honsehold furniture in every habitation of the civilized world t d to be written! inlerpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him; wherein still, to this day, fur ihe eye that will... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 272 pages
...household furniture in every habitation of the civilized world 1 In the poorest cottage are books—is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the...an interpreting response to whatever is deepest in him,—wherein still, to this day, for the eye that will look well, the mystery of existence reflects... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 870 pages
...know no more, their Bible true. 'In the poorest cottage,' said Thomas Carlyle, 'is one Book, wherein the spirit of man has found light and nourishment,...interpreting response to whatever is deepest in him.' 'In this Book,' says the aged grandmother, in Tennyson's poem— ' In this Book, little Annie, the... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pages
...distinctively that his fame as a geologist will repose. In the cottage of Hugh Miller's boyhood, was that " one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and an interpreting response to whatever is deepest in him," and which is still the Word of God, whatever... | |
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