Cited in Herbert Henry Asquith, Letters of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith to a Friend, Vol. 2 (1933), p. 94.
Sourced but undated
Context: Miss Sands told me that Queen Victoria, who was latterly éprise with Disraeli, one day asked him what was his real religion. "Madam," he replied, "I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New."
“… I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.”
“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.
You Shall Be as Gods: A Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition (1966) "Introduction"
Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
“The Old and New Testaments are the great code of art.”
Oldest source found: "The Harvard Advocate" (Vol. 102–103), p. 268
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“Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“The God of the New Testament is not a different God from the God of the Old”
Sermon 1
Context: In the Gospel of the New Testament the ancient conception of God is perfected and fulfilled... The same God who spoke from the bush on Mount Horeb had now appeared visibly in the Person of Emmanuel, God with us... The God of the New Testament is not a different God from the God of the Old.
But in this text postponed in a far wider concept than Malevich meant his Suprematism
1915 - 1925, Suprematism' in World Reconstruction (1920)
