Citations:through a glass darkly

English citations of through a glass darkly

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• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13:12:

  For now we ſee through a glaſſe, darkely : but then face to face : now I know in part, but then ſhall I know even as alſo I am knowen.

• 1780, London Review, volume XXI, a sermon by Hugh Blair, page 416:

  " […] Were the mind altogether free from prepoſſeſſion and bias, it might avail itself to more of the ſcanty knowledge which it poſſeſſes. […] At all times we are juſtly said to ſee through a glaſs, darkly […] "

• 1893, The Homiletic Review, volume XXVI, Funk & Wagnalls, page 526:

  The lines and tints in the original are as confusing as the tracks of a carriage wheel in a busy street. Every new step is seeing through a glass darkly.

• 1989, Philip Mirowski, More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics, →ISBN, page 174:

  Ricardo's tragedy was that he was at the mercy of an image of science derived from his predecessors, an image glimpsed through a glass darkly because of his own remote familiarity with "science"

• 2011 November 8, Stephen King, 11/22/63, →ISBN, page 176:

  But it was something else too, something bigger. A kind of awe, as if I had gripped the rim of some vast understanding. Or peered (through a glass darkly, you understand) into the actual clockwork of the universe.

• 2013, Allen C. Shelton, Where the North Sea Touches Alabama, →ISBN, page 199:

  […] but it's a landscape Weber saw through a glass darkly. African Americans don't appear in his essay either as slaves or as free persons. Nor does the labor violence that pock-marked the capitalist economies appear. It's a curious omission.