| sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...like my globe, and turn it round fometimes for my recreation. Men that look upon my outfide, perufing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I - am above Atlas's moulders. The r earth is a point not only in refpect of the heavens above us, but of • that heavenly... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...regard is myself; it is tHe microcostne of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on : for th'e other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...regard is myself; it is the microcosme 6f mine own frame, that 1 cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect 6f the heavens above us, but of that... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that... | |
| English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that... | |
| English literature - 1834 - 560 pages
...regard is myself. It ' is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; ' for the other, I use it, but like my globe, and turn it round ' sometimes...fortunes, do err in my altitude, ' for I am above Atlas his shoulders.'— (Here follows the high excuse for this lofty self-exaltation.) — ' The earth... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on : for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas's shoulders.2 The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on: for the other, 1 1 use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my i recreation. Men that look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my... | |
| Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...The world that I regard is myself. It is mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes...and fortunes, do err in my altitude, for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that... | |
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