| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...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 And, if each system in grrtdation roil Alike essential to th' amazing Whole, The least confusion but... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...chain whatever link you strike, IVnth, or ten-thousandth, breaks theehain alike. And, if each symptom at the sight, And spend itself in sighs, for future scenes. But grant to dot all That system only, but the whole must fall. Let earth nnbalanc'd from her orbit fly, Planets... | |
| Young lady - 1809 - 204 páginas
...our's ; 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 páginas
...on 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,...the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation rol| Alike essential to th" amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link yon strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain...if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 páginas
...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...each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks' the chain alike....if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system onjy, but the whole must fall.... | |
| 1812 - 292 páginas
...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... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 páginas
...or» 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 páginas
...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 the chain alike." This doctrine of a chain of being is equally a supers! ition of philosophy and a dream of poetry. Many... | |
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