 All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is not there on its own account ; strictly taken, is not there at all : Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth.  The Living Age - Side 5721907Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | J.A. Dibble - 1978 - 112 sider
...is not really a dogmatic statement but a conclusion drawn from the statements that follow it - viz., "Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth." At other times, however, the related statements which provide the underpinning for an apparently dogmatic... | |
 | J. P. Vijn - 1982 - 306 sider
...terms of the passage just quoted from "Prospective": The outward phenomena of the historical world 'are emblems; what thou seest is not there on its own account; strictly taken, is not there at all:' the outward spectacle of man 'exists only spiritually and to represent' the Divine Idea of the World... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1984 - 548 sider
...Smithy-Altar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us? 'All visible things are emblems; what thou seest is not...from the King's mantle downwards, are emblematic, nor of want only, but of a manifold cunning Victory over Want. On the other hand, all Emblematic things... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1963 - 388 sider
...and Nature differ only as seal and print." Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus agrees and says, "All visible things are emblems. What thou seest is not there on its own account; matter only exists to represent some idea and body it forth." Archbishop Trench, whose outstanding... | |
 | Misao Dean - 1991 - 220 sider
...the central idealist tenet that the external world is an incomplete embodiment of eternal ideas: "All visible things are emblems; what thou seest is not...spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth."17 Duncan makes the idealist view of the world into a principle of selection for her novels;... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 sider
...Rag-screen, overheaped with shreds and tatters raked from the Charnel-house of Nature" (41). Matter itself "exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth." Our bodies and lives become emblems or garments for "that divine ME," and language "the Flesh-Garment,... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - 318 sider
...Rag-screen, overheaped with shreds and tatters raked from the Charnel-house of Nature" (41). Matter itself "exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth." Our bodies and lives become emblems or garments for "that divine ME," and language "the Flesh-Garment,... | |
 | Suren Lalvani - 1996 - 288 sider
...a text to be both coded and decoded with infinite care if one was to avoid being ostracized.74 All visible things are emblems; what thou seest is not...as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant.75 The decoding of the body as emblematic of the social itself, was undertaken through... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1996 - 336 sider
...imagine, to put into writing, to narrate the human condition. All visible things are Emblems. . . . Hence Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes ... are Emblematic On the other hand, all Emblematic things are properly Clothes, thought-woven or... | |
 | John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff - 2009 - 612 sider
...the encounter between Europeans and Africans. And transformed both in the process. THE HEATHEN BODY Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes. . . are Emblematic. . . . On the other hand, all Emblematic things are properly Clothes, thought-woven... | |
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