 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
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1825 - 670 pages
...3.233 — 236. — — — — — — On superior p.owVs Were we to prcss, inferior might on our»: Or in the full creation leave a void, • Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd. «jib 3.239 — 242. And, if each System in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing Whole; The... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter - Medical - 2002 - 444 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; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step... | |
 | Robert E. Butts - Science - 1986 - 386 pages
...Vast chain of Being! which froi God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, Froi thee to Nothing. 23/ Ak I, pp. 174-175. The Appendix or Third Part of NTH entitled "On the Inhabitants... | |
 | Ernest A. Menze, Karl Menges - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 365 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." 130. "humans for trees": Allusion to St. Mark 8:22-24. 131. "Voltaire . . . spirit of events": As early... | |
 | Margit Hacker - Utopias in literature - 1989 - 196 pages
..."Vast chain of being, which from God bogan, Natures aethereal, human angel, man, Beast, bird fish, insect! what no eye can see, No glass can reach! from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing! [ . . . ] "1M Haller bezeichnet daher den Menschen in seinen "Gedanken über Vernunft, Aberglauben... | |
 | Charles Taylor - Philosophy - 1992 - 628 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. Or again: All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul71 This... | |
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - Art - 1989 - 136 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: / Or in the full creation... | |
 | David Carroll - Art - 1990 - 344 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: Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Philosophy - 1990 - 728 pages
...cosa con su full creation, como se puede deducir de la ilación de sus palabras. Carta 1, línea 235 On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a Void. Es decir, para él la creación está completa sólo porque todos sus grados están ocupados. Y ésta... | |
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