"Penetralia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... systems. Women already tread almost every avenue of honest thrift and business, unchallenged. The shrines of Minerva will not be desecrated by their presence. Their intellect will be developed, and their affections will be cultivated, and all truly womanly virtues fostered in the innermost penetralia even, of that temple where all wisdom, and all art, and all science, are taught; whose patron deity was prophetically made by a mythology, wise beyond its own ken, not a man, not a god—but a ...
— The Education of American Girls • Anna Callender Brackett
... Bob?' said the miller; for Bob's countenance was sublimed by his recent interview, like that of a priest just come from the penetralia ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy
... aliquid de mundi opifice delibant, norunt; hc, aquil invecta pennis, coeli penetralia perrumpit, in ipsum Patrem luminum oculos intendit, et audaci veritate promittit, DEUM nobis aliquando videndum ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon
... iron bolt, which prevented any impertinent intrusion into the penetralia of the Green Dragon, was drawn back, and the lusty form of the landlord made its appearance in the passage. He instantly recognised Wilton, whose person, indeed, was not very easily forgotten; and laying his finger on the side of his nose, ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James
... of the past night had settled into distinct and clear impressions. He thought of them but slightly,—he thought rather of the future. He was as one of the Initiated in the old Egyptian Mysteries, who have crossed the Gate only to look more ardently for the Penetralia. ...
— Zicci, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... element of the activity of the absolute Idea. The realizing activity of which we have spoken is the middle term of the syllogism, one of whose extremes is the universal essence, the Idea, which reposes in the penetralia of Spirit; and the other, the complex of external things—objective matter. That activity is the medium by which the universal latent principle is translated into ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
... sacrifices, according to the maxim of Cato, "Scito dominum pro tota familia rem divinam facere[285]." The Penates were beings of a higher order than the Lares, but having much the same offices. Their name was from the words denoting the interior of the mansion (Penetralia, Penitus). They took part in all the joys and sorrows of the family. To go home was "to return to one's Penates." In the same way, "Lar meus" meant "my house "; "Lar conductus," "a hired house "; "Larem mutare" meant to change one's ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke |
