Citations:phasis


 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XV, Practical — Devotional
 * Methodism with its eye forever turned on its own navel; asking itself with torturing anxiety of Hope and Fear, “Am I right, am I wrong? Shall I be saved, shall I not be damned?” — what is this, at bottom, but a new phasis of Egoism, stretched out into the Infinite; not always the heavenlier for its infinitude!