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  • 'In la sua volontade è nostra pace ...' to such criticism of life as Dante's, its power.

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • 'In la sua volontade è nostra pace ...' is altogether beyond Chaucer's reach; we praise him, but we feel that this accent is out of the question for him.

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • Thus religion, beginning as a slight and partial acknowledgment of powers superior to man, tends with the growth of knowledge to deepen into a confession of man's entire and absolute dependence on the divine; his old free bearing is exchanged for an attitude of lowliest prostration before the mysterious powers of the unseen, and his highest virtue is to submit his will to theirs: In la sua volontade è nostra pace.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Thus religion, beginning as a slight and partial acknowledgment of powers superior to man, tends with the growth of knowledge to deepen into a confession of man’s entire and absolute dependence on the divine; his old free bearing is exchanged for an attitude of lowliest prostration before the mysterious powers of the unseen, and his highest virtue is to submit his will to theirs: In la sua volontade è nostra pace.

    Chapter 4. Magic and Religion 1922

  • The accent of such verse as‘In la sua volontade è nostra pace…

    The Study of Poetry 1909

  • The accent of high seriousness, born of absolute sincerity, is what gives to such verse as‘In la sua volontade e nostra pace…

    The Study of Poetry 1909

  • Thus religion, beginning as a slight and partial acknowledgment of powers superior to man, tends with the growth of knowledge to deepen into a confession of man's entire and absolute dependence on the divine; his old free bearing is exchanged for an attitude of lowliest prostration before the mysterious powers of the unseen, and his highest virtue is to submit his will to theirs: _In la sua volontade è nostra pace.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • ’7 take the simple, but perfect, single line—‘In la sua volontade è nostra pace.

    The Study of Poetry 1909

  • Thus religion, beginning as a slight and partial acknowledgment of powers superior to man, tends with the growth of knowledge to deepen into a confession of man’s entire and absolute dependence on the divine; his old free bearing is exchanged for an attitude of lowliest prostration before the mysterious powers of the unseen, and his highest virtue is to submit his will to theirs: In la sua volontade è nostra pace.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

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