 ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — On superior...  The Proceedings of the Union Meeting: Held at Brewster's Hall, December 24, 1850 - Page 37by New Haven (Conn.). Citizens - 1851 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Young lady - 1809 - 204 pages
...; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. It is not only from the motion in the fibres of the brain that this pleasure springs, but it principally... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...urns; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd ; From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation rol| Alike essential to th" amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | 1812 - 292 pages
...must be directed by the primum mobile, or the first moving cause, and is therefore certain. " From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, « " Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." I shall now quote a few passages of scripture in support of this proposition, and will then pass to... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...ours j Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy*d: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand, to toil, aspir'd to be the head > What if the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 pages
...ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd. From nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." This doctrine of a chain of being is equally a supers! ition of philosophy and a dream of poetry. Many... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...ours; Of in the full creation leave a void, Where one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1818 - 616 pages
...from the stomach were not equal to the consumption, the body must inevilably waste and decay." " From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." | The necessity of atmospheric air, for the support of life, was exemplified by a melancholy accident... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...ours: Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale1* destroy'd: From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole; The least confusion but... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...; Or hi the full creation leave a void, WTwe, one step broken, the great scale's destroy 'd : From pleasing sense I ran, Nur wiih'd an angel wliom I lov'da man. Dim and remote the joys of s And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...; Or in the full creation leave a voidj "Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? What if the... | |
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