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Citations:through the glass darkly

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English citations of through the glass darkly

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  • 1839, The Botanico-medical Recorder, volume 8, The Ohio State University, page 345:
    But such have hardly "seen through the glass, darkly" and have yet much to learn before they can see the subject in all its important and varied bearings.
  • 1922, Eden Phillpotts, The Red Redmaynes[1]:
    “I have seen through the glass darkly,” he told them. “Indeed I cannot say that I have seen through the glass at all. I am entirely mystified [] "
  • 1976 August 31, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Ingardeniana: A Spectrum of Specialised Studies Establishing the Field of Research[2], →ISBN, page 386:
    Wittgenstein might have been right saying: "Worüber sich nicht sprechen lässt, darüber soll man schweigen". Nevertheless, is it not the task of philosophy to find an access to the real even indirectly, and have we not already seen "through the glass darkly"?
  • 2023, Richard Dannatt, Robert Lyman, Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918–40[3], →ISBN:
    For the most part these were years - until 1935 at least - in which British policy makers peered through the glass darkly, unwilling or reluctant to face up to the truth of what they could see.
  • 2024, William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, The Empire of Debt: We Came, We Saw, We Borrowed, →ISBN, page 289:
    Now an expert himself, his doubts are gone. The scales lifted from his eyes; where he once saw through the glass darkly now he sees clearly, face to face. Like the catastrophic campaign in Iraq, he saw no need for nuance.