 Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, 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...  L'essai sur l'homme - Seite 28von Alexander Pope - 1821 - 207 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...to press, inferior might on ours : Or VKK. 238. Ed. 1st. Ethereal essence, spirit, substance, man. Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks' the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike... | |
 | 1812 - 292 Seiten
...action 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 Seiten
...infinite to thee, From thee to nothing—On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours j Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...Infinite to thee. Trom thee to nothing. OB superior powers Were we to press, inferior might or» ours j Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...nothing.—On superior pow'rs Or in the full creation leave a void, Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 246 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each symptom in gradation roll Alike... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 Seiten
...infinite to thee — From thee to nothing. On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 Seiten
...one step broken, the great scale's destroy'*! : From nature's chain whatever Jink you strike, Teuth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradalioa roll, Alike essential to tlf amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 Seiten
...scale's destroy 'd ; From nature's chain, whatever link 3.0ii strike, Tenth or ten thounodtn, hrral:s the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th'amszing whole, The least confusion but in one. not all That system only, but the whole must fall... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - 1818 - 616 Seiten
...supply 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 Seiten
...From thee to nothing. On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the fall creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the...strike. Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. What if the foot, ordain'dthe dust to tread, Or hand, to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? What if the... | |
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