 ... velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite; but in God there is nothing transitory; but in God there can be nothing that tends to death. Therefore, it follows, that for God there can be no present.  Penitentiary Post - Page 262de Kathrene Sutherland Gedney Pinkerton, Robert Eugene Pinkerton - 1920 - 245 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pages
...there can be no present. The future is the present of God, and to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...earthquake. Therefore it is that he works by grief. Oh, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! Oh, deep " [and his voice 'swelled like a sanctus rising... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 pages
...there can be no present. The future is the present of God, and to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...earthquake. Therefore it is that he works by grief. Oh, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! Oh, deep " [and his voice swelled like a sanctus rising from... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pages
...there can be no present. The future is the present of God, and to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...earthquake. Therefore it is that he works by grief. O, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! O, deep " — [and his voice swelled like a sanctus rising... | |
 | Henry Giles - 1854 - 372 pages
...there can be no present. The future is the present of God ; and to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...earthquake ; therefore it is that he works by grief. O, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! O, deep,' (and his voice swelled like a sanctus rising from... | |
 | Mary Hayden Pike - 1854 - 334 pages
...have sufficed the purposes of God. The future is the present of God, and to that future he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...earthquake. Therefore it is that he works by grief. O, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! O, deep is the ploughing of grief! but less than these fierce... | |
 | Mary Langdon - 1855 - 492 pages
...present of God, and to that future he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works liy earthquake. Therefore it is that he works by grief....but less than these fierce ploughshares would not hare stirred the stubborn soil." THOMAS DE QDINCET. IT was a clear, frosty night. The moon was sinking... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 304 pages
...there can be no present. The future is the present of God, ind to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...grief. 0, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! 0, deep " — [and his voice swelled like a sanctus rising from the choir of a cathedral] — " 0, deep is... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 608 pages
...there can be no present. The future is the present of God, and to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...grief. 0, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! 0, deep "—(and his voice swelled like a sanctus rising from the choir of a cathedral)—" 0, deep is the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1871 - 600 pages
...there can bo no present. The future is the present of God, and to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present. Therefore it is that he works by...earthquake. Therefore it is that he works by grief. O, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! 0, deep " — (and his voice swelled like a sanctus rising... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 654 pages
...there can bn no present. The future is the present of God, and to the future it is that he sacrifices the human present Therefore it is that he works by...works by grief. 0, deep is the ploughing of earthquake ! O, deep " — [and his voice swelled 'ik<- a tanctus rising from the choir of a cathedral] — O,... | |
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