 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...  The Opal - Strona 881852Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Aikin - 1843 - Liczba stron: 826
...Reason all these powers in one ? VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, From Nature's ead, on downy moss sustain'd ; Here laid his scrip,...There, listening every noise, his watchful dog. Light f til' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all • That system only, but the whole must... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1843 - Liczba stron: 222
...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 - Liczba stron: 48
...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 - Liczba stron: 440
...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 - Liczba stron: 368
...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 - Liczba stron: 490
...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... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - Liczba stron: 510
...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... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1845 - Liczba stron: 140
...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." I sophy, though we have not brought up all the ore into view, and tested it in detail, or proved the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - Liczba stron: 530
...et'la parole.1 150 151 * Va* chain of Being ! which from God began,' and proceeds lo * From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.1 Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Walter, whose last verae is as fine as any... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - Liczba stron: 524
...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike....each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing Whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the Whole must fall.... | |
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