...discusses no less a subject than the doctrines of fatalism and free-will — " a Jarfc Illimitahle ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, arclnst." We are sincerely happv in being able to plead our contracted limits as an apology for avoiding...

...horrid to imagination. The poet Milton seems to allude to this description of Berosus, when he speaks of The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable...where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where natare breil Perverse all monstrous* all prodigious things, Abcrr>?nib!e. un;:ttenble....

...horrid to imagination. The poet Milton seems to allude to this description of Berosus, when he speaks of The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable...where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable,...

...those primeval and momentous scenes. Nothing presents itself to the unassisted eye of human reason but A dark " Illimitable ocean without bound, " Without...breadth and height, " And time and place are lost." With this divine light, we have seen in the events .narrated in the preceding volume, that man was...

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...to allude to this description of Be* rosus, when he speaks of The secrets of the hoary deep, a darfc Illimitable ocean, without bound, "Without dimension,...where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place were lost : where nature • bred Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable,...

...furnace mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable...eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and...

...furnace mouth Cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep ; a dark Illimitable...bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time, and place, arc lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal...

...furnace mouth -Cast forth n-doundiug smoke and ruddy flame. Before their eyes in sudden view appear 890 The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable...eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold 895 Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist,...

...whose light has not reached us since the creation of the world. This is the universe of the poet; ' Without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time and place are lost." The quantity of light and heat which the planets receive from the sun, decreases in proportion as the...