 | Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 páginas
...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 alike." (Essay on Man.) and the adorable Infinite there must exist another illimitable void, — that the boundless... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...Is not thy Reason all these powers in one ? VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth,...if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to til' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all • That system only, but the whole must... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1843 - 222 páginas
...destroy'd. From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 2. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, Tne least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall. Let earth, unbalanc'd... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1844 - 34 páginas
...about alone. Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true. " From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." A truth immortal in immortal verse, Which boys at school unceasingly rehearse, But which grown men... | |
 | Ralph Randolph Gurley - 1844 - 440 páginas
...Christianity, for which, we find nothing like a parallel in any other religion upon earth. " From this great chain, whatever link you strike, • Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." But it is time to inquire, 2dly, What is the object of savin'g faith ? When I look over Christendom,... | |
 | 1844 - 368 páginas
...insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thcc, From thec to nothing. * * * And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing all, That srstcm only, but the whole must fall. Let earth, unbalanced, from her orbit fly, Planets... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...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 alike. What if the foot, ordained the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspired to be the head ? What if the... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1845 - 68 páginas
...altered or substituted, at will, and without a new proof, or remark, and to satisfy a change of fancy. " From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." sophy, though we have not brought up all the ore into view, and tested it in detail, or proved the... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 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 alike." The poet has admirably expressed my sentiment. They are beautiful lines. Mr. Addison has a very fine... | |
 | 1846 - 496 páginas
...inevitably as all communication is interrupted by a break in the wire of the electric telegraph. " From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." And even had it always remained entire, and its continuity never been interrupted, still this chain has... | |
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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 the chain alike. And, if each system in... 
