Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! 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. Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ... - Page 290by Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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, 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or VKK.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...etherial, human, angel, man; ' Beast, bird, fish, inseet, what no eye ean see, No glass ean reaeh ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...pow'rs •Were we to press, inferior might on ours 3 Or in the full ereation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great seale's destroy'd' From nature's... | |
| William Bullock - 1813 - 250 pages
...Vast chain of being, which from GOD began, Nature's 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! Coryphene, or Dolphin. (Coryphrena Hippnris.) The Dolphin . is an inhabitant of the Mediterranean,... | |
| Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 pages
...glafs can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From thee to nothing On iuperior pow*r» Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one flep broken, the great fcale's deffroy'd ; From nature's chain whatever link you ftrike, Tenth, or... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...Vast chain of being, which from God began : Natures etherial, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee. Trom thee to nothing. OB superior powers Were we to press, inferior might or» ours j Or in the full... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 pages
...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 ;...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...Vast chain of beiug ! which from God began, Nature, ethereal, human, angtl, man : Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ;...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... | |
| DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 160 pages
...Vast chain of heing ! which from God hegan. Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, hird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ;...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 pages
...glafs can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On fuperior powers Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one ftep broken, the great Icale's deflroy'dj From nature's chain whatever link you ftrike, Tenth or ten... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1816 - 316 pages
...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. POPE. Obs.~-The principal object of the study of natural history, is to teach us the characteristics,... | |
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