Jones was unnecessary to teach the congregation to rise; the solemnity of the divine effected this as by magic.
When the clergyman bent his knees in prayer and confession, the congregation so far imitated his example as to resume their seats; whence no succeeding effort of the divine, during the evening, was able to remove them in a body.
The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.
And when I mention honour, I mean that mode of Divine grace which is not only consistent with, but dependent upon, this religion; and is consistent with and dependent upon no other.
Those who are possessed of it cannot be said to be men of science or philosophers, but they are inspired and divine.
But Plato certainly does not mean to intimate that the supernatural or divine is the true basis of human life.
In regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet friend, that I look on marriage as a
divine institution to which we must conform.
And consequently does it not of necessity follow that the more
divine offspring of the
divine Cube in the Land of Four Dimensions, must have 8 bounding Cubes: and is not this also, as my Lord has taught me to believe, "strictly according to Analogy"?
Could we render this inimitable picture properly, then would everybody exclaim, "Beautiful, unparalleled Italy!" But neither the young
Divine said so, nor anyone of his grumbling companions in the coach of the vetturino.
Unspeakable, who sitst above these Heavens To us invisible or dimly seen In these thy lowest works, yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and Power
Divine: Speak yee who best can tell, ye Sons of light, Angels, for yee behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, Day without Night, Circle his Throne rejoycing, yee in Heav'n, On Earth joyn all yee Creatures to extoll Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Because the familiar
divine voice has hindered him; if he had been a public man, and had fought for the right, as he would certainly have fought against the many, he would not have lived, and could therefore have done no good.
"I desired," replied the Dog, "merely to harmonise myself with the
Divine Scheme of Things.