 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 286by Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Bullock - Natural history - 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 - Elocution - 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 - Elocution - 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.) - Science - 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.) - Ecology - 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 - Readers - 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 - Arts - 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,... | |
 | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Electrophysiology - 1817 - 452 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."* Yet this gradation deserves not the epithet regular or insensible. " The highest being not infinite... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 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—On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Of in the full creation leave... | |
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