 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...  Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ... - Page 371817Full view - About this book
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1825 - 670 pages
...3.233 — 236. — — — — — — On superior p.owVs Were we to prcss, inferior might on our»: Or in the full creation leave a void, • Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd. «jib 3.239 — 242. And, if each System in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing Whole; The... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...infinite to thee, From thee to nothing ! on superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...to thee, From thee to nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were we to. press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'di From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Ten or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's deatroy'd ; From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten, thousandth, breaks the drain... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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 broken , the great scale 's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...nature's ehain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the ehain alike. AuЛ, if eaeh 'd' &x%g'h'7# ' $ ' $ '"!\#E eonfusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall. Ixrt earth unbalane'd from... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
..." „ From thee to nothing. — On superior pow'rs * Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...whole, . "The least confusion but in one, not all • \J \ That system only, but the whole must fall. V Let earth, unbalanc'd from her orbit fly, " \... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior pow'rs Were we, to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 3. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, All this dread ORDER break—for whom ? for thee/... | |
 | Elijah Parish - Congregational churches - 1826 - 468 pages
...unknown and probably extinct. What then becomes of the popular doctrine of philosophy and poetry. " From nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." * M. CuTier 189 Did the world, when first created, contain its present variety of earths and minerals,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...the.e, From tliee to nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's oV ' From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the. chain alike.... | |
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