 | John Baillie - 1856 - 260 pages
...which my mind has often dwelt, both in the crowd and in the closet: * "We are spirits, clad in .veils ; Man by man was never seen : All our deep communion fails To remove the shadowy screen.' Often, when I have been expatiating in the wide world of thought and feeling, which lay outstretched... | |
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 266 pages
...which my mind has often dwelt, both in the crowd and in the closet : ' We are spirits, clad in veils ; Man by man 'was never seen : All our deep communion fails To remove the shadowy screen.' Often,- when I have been expatiating in the wide world of thought and feeling, which lay outstretched... | |
 | Theodore Hartmann - Christmas plays - 1859 - 622 pages
...: Sonls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. " We are spirits clad in vails : Man by man was never seen : All our deep communion fails To remove the shadowy screen." Finding in that book, which was to her the very oracle of light and truth, a faith, which, however... | |
 | Theodore Hartmann - Christmas plays - 1859 - 616 pages
...Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. " We are spirits clad in vails : Man hy man was never seen : All our deep communion fails To remove the shadowy screen." Finding in that book, which was to her the very oracle of light and truth, a faith, which, however... | |
 | 1859 - 782 pages
...Carey's prayers, or register the groans of a contrite spirit : — " We are spirits clad in vails. More by man was never seen; All our deep communion fails To remove the hidden screen." It is to the threshold only of the hidden life that Mr. Marshman conducts us, and then... | |
 | Living - Bible - 1867 - 284 pages
...of the Saviour, but we see Him only " through a glass darkly." " We are spirts clad in veils : Wan, by man, was never seen ; All our deep communion fails To remove that shadowy screen. "J And until that veil of the body be rent in twain we shall not see Jesus as... | |
 | Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - American fiction - 1868 - 312 pages
...against him, the young lady could not consent to such a possibility. " ' We are spirits, clad in veils; Man by man was never seen. All our deep communion fails To remove tlie shadowy screen.' " She murmured this over to herself; yet surely the veil which wrapped the spirit... | |
 | Edmund L. Hull - Sermons, English - 1874 - 330 pages
...visions of the Saviour, but we see Him only "through a glass darkly." " We are spirits clad in veils ; Man, by man, was never seen : All our deep communion fails To remove that shadowy screen." And until that veil of the body be rent in twain we shall not see Jesus as He... | |
 | W F. Clarkson - 1875 - 100 pages
...stranger, and cannot intermeddle with our experience. For " We are spirits clad in veils, Man by man is never seen, All our deep communion fails To remove the shadowy screen." The path seems too narrow for two to walk abreast, and we are happy if only we can hear the voice of... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught We are spirits clad in veils: Man by man was never seen ; All our deep communion fails To remove the shadowy screen. Heart to heart was never known; Mind with miud did never meet; We are columns left alone, Of a temple... | |
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We are spirits clad in veils : Man by man was never seen ; All our deep communion fails To remove the shadowy screen. 
