 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 - Seite 336von Thomas Carlyle - 1897Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bickford Heard - 1875 - 426 Seiten
...laid upon thei lap of an angel. It would not be fair to infer from this that he Noralis 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 - 1876 - 412 Seiten
...Flesh." "There is but one temple in the world," says he, "and that is the body of man. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh....touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body." In which notable words, a reader that meditates them may find such meaning and scientific accuracy... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 Seiten
...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....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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 406 Seiten
...Flesh." "There is but one temple in the world," says he, "and that is the body of man. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when jwe lay our hand on a human body." In which notalile words, a reader that meditates them may find such... | |
 | 1877 - 1146 Seiten
...devout Novalis, ' 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.' " * Here we are in full fervour of transcendentalism. But the eighteenth century recognized the wisdom... | |
 | Charles Newton Scott - 1877 - 248 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1877 - 538 Seiten
...quite right. Every man should be honoured as God's image, in the sense in which Novalis says — that we touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body ! Wandering Minstrels. 107 .... The old Homeric Greeks I think felt that, and acted up to it, more... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 Seiten
...Heaven. This body, this life of ours, these faculties, are they not all a vesture for that Unnamed ? We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. We are the miracle of miracles. This is scientific fact. God's creation — it is the Almighty God's.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1878 - 404 Seiten
...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....touch heaven •when we lay our hand on a human body 1 " This sounds much like a mere flourish of rhetoric ; but it is not so. If well meditated, it will... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 Seiten
...Novalis, ' 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. We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human_body.' "* Here wTare in full fervour of transcendentalism. But the eighteenth century recognized... | |
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