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The solution to the poem's puzzle, that is, involves the recognition that all sounds ultimately pour into the ear of the Lord God of all, the author of the all-creating Word.
The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008
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In the final chapter of the third treatise she is explicitly identified with the all-creating Wisdom of God [3.15.15], and Dante concludes in prophetic exhortation
Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006
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But they who know how to praise Thee for it, “O all-creating Lord,” take it up in Thy hymns, and are not taken up with it in their sleep.
The Confessions 1999
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If we consider arightly the Frame of the whole Vniuerse and Method of the all-creating Wisedome in her worke; as creating the formes of things infinitely diuers, so accord - ing to Dignity of Essence or Vertue in effect, wee must acknowledge the same to hold a Soueraigntie, and transcen - dent prædominance, as well of Rule as Place each ouer either.
HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968
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They are in the distant regions of futurity, they exist only in the all-creating power of God, who shall stand here, a hundred years hence, to trace, through us, their descent from the Pilgrims, and to survey, as we have now surveyed, the progress of the country during the lapse of a century.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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Soon, nevertheless, there insinuates itself the realization that there is in this work neither the all-creating spirit the composer so magniloquently invokes, nor the heaven he strives so ardently to attain.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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As the word of the man reveals what is in his mind and heart (reveals the mind — unseen, dominating, and creating), and as the breath proceeds from the man through the word, revealing the mind or the thought, so, somewhat similarly, the Word of God reveals to us the Father — that great all-creating
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Imagine how the air was diffused, how the most varied vegetation suddenly appeared at a single word of the all-creating God.
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It previously embraced in Itself all things existing, absolutely and without limit, by the complete benefactions of His one and all-creating forethought, and by all created things in joint accord It is celebrated and named.
Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897
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The denkhi is said to have been blessed by Brahma's son Narada, the god who is distinguished as having cursed his venerable and all-creating sire and changed him from an object of worship and adoration to a luster after forbidden things.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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