Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise... Littell's Living Age - Page 801868Full view - About this book
| Leland S. Person - 2007 - 128 pages
...redemption). He admits being perplexed that Donatello appears "elevated" by sin, and wonders if sin is "merely an element of human education, through which...purer state than we could otherwise have attained" (4: 460). Hilda expresses shock "beyond words" at the idea, and Kenyon begs her forgiveness for letting... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1883 - 592 pages
...? " " Here comes my perplexity," continued Kenyon. " Sin has educated Donatello, and awakened him. Is sin, then, which we deem such a dreadful blackness...ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?" "Oh! hush," cried Hilda, shrinking from 'him, with an expression of horror, which wounded the poor,... | |
| 1868 - 860 pages
...perplexity,' continued Kenyon. ' Sin has educated Donatello, ~ and elevated him. Is sin, then, whicTi we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe,...ultimately rise to ' a far loftier paradise than his ? ' "'O, hush!" cried Hilda, shrinking from him with an expression of horror which wounded the poor... | |
| 1868 - 616 pages
...in the ваше deed." Again, " Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him," 112 Positivism. — and the scope of the whole book is an attempt to embody...we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe, — ia it like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher... | |
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