 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.  Human Physiology - Page 33by Robley Dunglison - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man,1^ Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior powers Were we to press, inferior... | |
 | Henry St. John Bullen - 1853 - 318 pages
...case to the verb, when no nominative comes between it and the verb ; as — The master who taught us. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, mau. The relative who, when it follows the adverb than, is put in the accusative case ; as — Beelzebub,... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 1854 - 576 pages
...bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature's...fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach from infinite to thee, Frointhee to nothing." — ESSAY OJf MAN, 1. § 8. — ED. VOL. IL E reason... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1854 - 324 pages
...bursting into birth ; Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began — Nature's...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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...go ! 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 Infinity to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might... | |
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...extend below 1 Vast chain of being ! which from time began, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man, Eeast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach from infinite to Thee ; From thee to nothing." Often has the ocean been personified. And one can scarcely... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of Being ! which from God began, Nature's...Insect — what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing. SCENES must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...go ! 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 sec, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — On superior powers Were... | |
 | Miss Grace Sciencia (pseud.) - Eccentric literature - 1858 - 400 pages
...into a systematic science. Man, the head of a "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; yes, to redeem man from the mere position of an automaton, and give him his true position, the greatest... | |
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