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  • Tucker has posted new pictures on the Canons Vesture page.

    Canons Vesture Argent 2006

  • It can make of this world a vast chaos -- "a mighty maze without a plan;" or a mere machine -- a collection of lifeless forces; or it can make it the Living Vesture of GOD, the tissue through which He can become visible to us.

    Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson

  • What force and fire there is in each he expends, one grinding in the mill of Industry; one hunter-like climbing the giddy Alpine heights of science; one madly dashed in pieces on the rocks of Strife in war with his fellow, and then the heaven - sent is recalled; his earthly Vesture falls away, and soon even to sense becomes a vanished shadow.

    Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863

  • Vesture of Immortality, and put on, in the name of the All-Glorious, the broidered Robe of Light.

    Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854

  • Symbols are properly Clothes; that all Forms whereby Spirit manifests itself to sense, whether outwardly or in the imagination, are Clothes; and thus not only the parchment Magna Charta, which a Tailor was nigh cutting into measures, but the Pomp and Authority of Law, the sacredness of Majesty, and all inferior Worships (Worthships) are properly a Vesture and Raiment; and the Thirty-nine Articles themselves are articles of wearing-apparel (for the Religious Idea)?

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Vesture falls away, and soon even to Sense becomes a vanished Shadow.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Rep. Ryan Points Out the Emperor's Lack of Vesture funding gimmicks and deferred costs that raise the real price tag of

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  • Whether or not, to all our other woes, this intolerablest one is to be added; which renders us not a menaced Nation in extreme jeopardy and need, but a paralytic Solecism of a Nation; sitting wrapped as in dead cerements, of a Constitutional-Vesture that were no other than a winding-sheet; our right hand glued to our left: to wait there, writhing and wriggling, unable to stir from the spot, till in Prussian rope we mount to the gallows?

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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