"Trine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... follow the central thought that runs like the nave from entrance to choir, it leads us to an image of the divine made human, to teach us how the human might also make itself divine. Dante beholds at last an image of that Power, Love, and Wisdom, one in essence, but trine in manifestation, to answer the needs of our triple nature and satisfy the senses, the heart, and ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell
... plan, Leave thou to us, to whom such things belong.' 'To you!' replied the old man, hale and strong; 'I dare pronounce you altogether wrong. The settled part of man's estate Is very brief, and comes full late. To those pale, gaming sisters trine, Your lives are stakes as well as mine. While so uncertain is the sequel, Our terms of future life are equal; For none can tell who last shall close his eyes Upon the glories of these azure skies; Nor any moment give us, ere it flies, Assurance that another such shall rise, But my descendants, ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... dips into one and picks up a scrap from another. His mind gradually fills itself with miscellaneous flotsam, with superficial opinions, with a thousand half-knowledges. Almost unconsciously he begins to rate literature according to what people ask for. He begins to wonder whether Ralph Waldo Trine isn't really greater than Ralph Waldo Emerson, whether J. M. Chapple isn't as big a man as J. M. Barrie. That way lies ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley
... sextile, quartile, trine, conjoined, or opposite; houses of heaven, with their cusps, hours, and minutes; almuten, almochoden, anabibazon, catabibazon; a thousand terms of equal sound and significance, poured thick and threefold upon the unshrinking Dominie, whose stubborn incredulity bore ...
— Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... influx out of heaven sees in his spirit that God is a Man, it follows that those who are of the church where the Word is, if they shun and turn away from evils as sins, see, from the light of heaven in which they then are, the Divine in the Lord's Human, and the trine in Him, and Himself to be the God of heaven and earth. But those who by intelligence from what is their own (proprium) have destroyed in themselves the idea of God as a Man are unable to see this; neither do they see from the trinity that ...
— Spiritual Life and the Word of God • Emanuel Swedenborg |
