| Quotations - 1893 - 106 pages
...than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Charles Dickens. When the sun rises, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host...— "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty." —William Blake. The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of... | |
| Louis Albert Banks - Conduct of life - 1898 - 152 pages
...hindrance, and not action. What ! it will be questioned, when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat like a guinea ? Oh, no, no ! I see...crying, ' Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ' " It is better for a man to fail in a noble struggle, inspired by a lofty purpose, led onward by... | |
| Future life - 1902 - 406 pages
...thought never travelled to heaven is no artist. When the sun rises I see, not a round disk of fire, but an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty!" WILLIAM BLAKE. Eternity, which cannot be far off, is my one strong city. I look into it fixedly now... | |
| Aesthetics - 1903 - 450 pages
...not with it. ' What,' it will be questioned, ' when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire like a guinea? ' Oh, no ! no ! I see an innumerable...crying, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ' " Says Flammarion : "Suns of infinity rush through space with inconceivable swiftness, but these... | |
| Richard Maurice Bucke - Consciousness - 1905 - 352 pages
...hindrance and not action. "What! " it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?" " Oh, no, no...holy is the Lord God Almighty ! ' " I question not my cor- So Carpenter asks (knowing well the answer) : poreal eye any more than I would question " Does... | |
| Charles William Stubbs - English literature - 1906 - 240 pages
...hindrance, and not action. What ! it will be questioned, when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea ? Oh, no! no!...Holy is the Lord God Almighty ! I question not my corporal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it and not... | |
| Charles William Stubbs - English literature - 1906 - 236 pages
...will be questioned, when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea r Oh, no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the...Holy is the Lord God Almighty ! I question not my corporal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it and not... | |
| English periodicals - 1880 - 588 pages
...for he pierced through the sensible form to the spiritual meaning, and detected in the radiant sky " an innumerable company of the heavenly host, crying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty ! " He questioned not his corporeal eye any more than he would question a \vindow concerning a sight.... | |
| 1866 - 590 pages
...hindrance and not action. ' What !' it will be " questioned, ' when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire " somewhat like a guinea ?' Oh no ! no ! I see an innumerable com" pany of the heavenly host crying, ' Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God " Almighty !' I question... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 pages
...hindrance and not action. " What ! " it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disc of fire, somewhat like a guinea?" Oh! no, no!...crying, " Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty." ' The essential thing for men — such it seems is the pith of Blake's message — is that each should... | |
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