... be wrought in us by what is unsubstantial, and comes and goes, and begins and ends in itself? It is not so; it cannot be. No; they have escaped from some higher sphere; they are the outpourings of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound ; they... The New Ireland Review - Page 2661899Full view - About this book
| American periodicals - 1866 - 848 pages
...majestic, should be a mere sound which is gone and perishes ? Can it he that those mysterious stirrings of heart, and keen emotions, and strange yearnings...governance, or the Divine attributes ; something are they beside themselves, which we cannot compass, which we cannot utter, though mortal man, and he perhaps... | |
| John Henry Newman - Anglican Communion - 1844 - 372 pages
...eternal harmony in the medium of created sound ; they are echoes from our Home ; they are the voice of Angels, or the Magnificat of Saints, or the living...something / are they besides themselves, which we cannot com- ^ pass, which we cannot utter, — though mortal man, and he perhaps not otherwise distinguished... | |
| Henry Formby - Church music - 1846 - 154 pages
...of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound; they are echoes from our home, they are the voice of angels, or the magnificat of Saints, or the living...Divine governance, or the Divine attributes; something they are besides themselves, which we cannot compass, which we cannot utter — though mortal man,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 608 pages
...eternal harmony in the medium of created sound ; they are echoes from our Home ; they are the voice of angels, or the Magnificat of saints, or the living...are they besides themselves which we cannot compass, we cannot utter, though mortal man, and he perhaps not otherwise distinguished above his fellows, has... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...outpourings of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound ; they are echoes from our Home ; they arc the voices of Angels, or the Magnificat of Saints, or the living laws of Divine governauco. or the Divine attributes ; something ore they besides themselves, which we cannot compass,... | |
| 1868 - 896 pages
...they have escaped from some higher sphere ; . . . they are echoes from our home ; they are the voice of angels, or the Magnificat of saints, or the living...which we cannot compass, which we cannot utter."* The beauty of this extract, from perhaps one of the greatest passages of its eminent author, may be... | |
| 1873 - 598 pages
...higher sphere ; they are the outpourings of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound ; they aro echoes from our home ; they are the voices of Angels,...cannot compass, which we cannot utter, though mortal roan — and he, perhaps, not otherwise distinguished above his fellows — has the power of eliciting... | |
| 1874 - 864 pages
...in the medium of created sound ; they are echoes from our borne ; they are the voice of angels, иг the Magnificat of saints, or the living laws of Divine...which we cannot compass, which we cannot utter, though a mortal man, and he, perhaps, not otherwise distinguished above his fellows, has the gift of eliciting... | |
| English periodicals - 1875 - 972 pages
...eternal harmonies in the medium of earthly sound — they are echoes from our Home — they are the voice of Angels, or the Magnificat of saints — or the living laws of Divine governments ; or the Divine attributes. Something they are beside themselves which we cannot express;... | |
| Charles Kegan Paul - Great Britain - 1883 - 276 pages
...of eternal harmony in the medium of created sound; they are echoes from our Home, they are the voice of Angels, or the Magnificat of Saints, or the living...besides themselves, which we cannot compass, which we cnnnot utter,—though mortal man, and he perhaps not otherwise distinguished above his fellows, has... | |
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