 Passion natural, suffered from things visible ; passion spiritual, centred on things unseen : and the strife or antagonism which is throughout the subject of Lord Lindsay's proof, is not, as he has stated it, between the moral, intellectual, and sensual...  The Complete Works of John Ruskin - Pagina 27di John Ruskin - 1885Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | George Valentine Cox - 1837 - 302 pagine
...all is vanity. All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth?' It is true, as we are told by the poet, that' every yesterday has lighted fools the... | |
 | George Valentine Cox - 1837 - 896 pagine
...all is vanity. All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth ? ' It is true, as we are told by the poet, that ' every yesterday has lighted fools the... | |
 | 1844 - 498 pagine
...teacheth us more than the beasts of the field ?" Who knoweth or distinguished! (or lives as if he did so) the spirit of man, which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, that goeth downward to the earth ? Neither is this wisdom unerring even in earthly matters : " He that... | |
 | Thomas Dale - 1844 - 378 pagine
...question which he could only ask, and pronounce what difference there is " between the spirit of a man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth." More are the dead which are already dead than the living which are yet alive — and... | |
 | 1844 - 1024 pagine
...question which he could only ask, and pronounce what difference there is ' between the spirit of a man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth.' More are the dead which are already dead than the living which are yet alive—and yet... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 pagine
...antagonism which is throughout the subject of Lord Lindsay's proof, is not. as he has stated it, between Uie moral, intellectual, and sensual elements, but between...and the spirit of the Beast which goeth downward. We should not have been thus strict in our examination of these preliminary statements, if the question... | |
 | J E. Sinyanki - 1853 - 270 pagine
...verse confirms this view, "Who knoweth,"—that is, would to God that all the sons of men did know, " the spirit of man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" therefore men ought not to compare themselves in their deeds to... | |
 | Frances Browne - 1862 - 322 pagine
...angelic look, contrasted as it was with the motionless and watching dog that lay so silently beside her. The spirit of man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward, were visible there. Edified, and at the same time ashamed of herself, Annie crept back, and resumed... | |
 | John Thomas Jeffcock - 1869 - 292 pagine
...exact line of demarcation betwixt the spirit of man and the spirit of beast, for he says " who knoweth the spirit of man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth ?" They both live, they both die; and here, at least, they are equal and undistinguishable... | |
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...to God who gave it." (Eccles. xii. 7.) See also chap. iii. 21 : " Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man which goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth?" Who knoweth? None but they who have been taught of God, and they can answer the question... | |
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