 | Richard Burleigh Kimball - 1850 - 432 Seiten
...topic which is not here embodied or glanced at ; and modern philosophy is pretty severely hit, aa may be inferred from the motto of Headlong Hall : ' All philosophers, who find Some favortte system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit.' " Cincinnati... | |
 | James Caughey - 1852 - 456 Seiten
...to the idea : "As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline ; Or, as philosophers, who find Some favorite system to their...to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit." I shall, therefore, beg to be excused from " entering the lists " against fancies so ridiculous. There... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...o'er the mass ; As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline ; Or, as s, lessening down From Infinite Perfection to the...nothing, desolate abyss ! "mm which astonish 'd thought, Cadenus, who could ne'er suspect His lessons would have such effect, Or be so artfully applied, Insensibly... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1860 - 1090 Seiten
...o'er the mass : As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline: Or, as philosophers, who find Some favorite system to their...point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit. Cadenus, who could ne'er suspect His lessons would have such effect, Or be so artfully applied, Insensibly... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 450 Seiten
...through three editions. He took as the text for his tale — "All philosophers who find Some favourite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit." The four principal personages of this tale were Mr. Foster the perfectibilian, Mr. Escot, Mr. Jenkinson,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 Seiten
...o'er the mass ; As rivers, though they bend and twine. Still to the sea their course incline ; Or, as Cadenus, who could ne'er suspect His lessons would have such effect, Or be so artfully applied, Insensibly... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 Seiten
...bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline ; Or as philosophers, who find Some fav'rite ay For fear of dying suffer worse than death. Armstrong. — Swift. 2702. PHILOSOPHY: baffled. SURVEY the magnet's sympathetic love, That woos the yielding... | |
 | James Spedding - 1879 - 450 Seiten
...prefixed to his earliest work gives us the key to all — " All philosophers who find Some favourite system to their mind ; In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit." He is the disturber-general of favourite systems ; the self-retained advocate of nature against all... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 Seiten
...bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline : Or, as philosophers, who find Some favourite system to their mind ; In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit. Cadenus, who could ne'er suspect His lessons would have such effect, Or be so artfully applied, Insensibly... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 222 Seiten
...bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline; Or, as philosophers, who find Some fav'rite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit. Cadenus, who could ne'er suspect His lessons would have such effect, Or be so artfully applied, Insensibly... | |
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Or as philosophers, who find Some favourite system to their mind, In every point to make it fit, Will force all nature to submit. 
