 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 - Page 881852Full view - About this book
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...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." This doctrine of a chain of being is equally a supers! ition of philosophy and a dream of poetry. Many... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...one step broken, the great scale's destroy'*! : From nature's chain whatever Jink you strike, Teuth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradalioa roll, Alike essential to tlf amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...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,...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...scale's destroy 'd ; From nature's chain, whatever link 3.0ii strike, Tenth or ten thounodtn, hrral:s the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th'amszing whole, The least confusion but in one. not all That system only, but the whole must fall... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...scale's destroyY • From nature's chain whatever lint you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, briaks the chain alike. And if 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 far!.... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1818 - 616 pages
...stomach were not equal to the consumption, the body must inevilably waste and decay." " From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." | The necessity of atmospheric air, for the support of life, was exemplified by a melancholy accident... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...natore's chain whatever liak you strike, s enth, or ten thousandth, hreaks the cha:n alike. And, if ench system in gradation roll Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least coofusion hut in one, nnt all That system ouly, hut the whole must fall. 264 Let earth unhulanced from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale1* destroy'd: From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth,...if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole; The least confusion but in one, not all iSSA" ON MAN. 15 That system only, but the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...the full creation leave a void, WTwe, one step broken, the great scale's destroy 'd : From Nature's sense I ran, Nur wiih'd an angel wliom I lov'da man....see, Nor envy them that Heaven I lose for thee. H th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...the full creation leave a voidj "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. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? What if the... | |
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