 The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I...  The New Monthly Magazine - Page 171833Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...perusing only my condition 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...not my mind ; that surface that tells the heavens thfey have an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty.... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...outside, pursuing only my condition and fortune, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas's shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...but of that heavenly and celestial part within us There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...strange power of turning poison into nutriment. Banish us the air of Heaven — cripple the step — bind us to the sick couch — cut us off from the cheerful...tells the Heavens they have an end, cannot persuade me 1 have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty. Though the number of the arc do measure... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...eye on; for the other, I use it but like ray globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...me, limits not my mind ; that surface that tells the heaven$>ilj hath an .end, cannot persuade me I have any. Whilst I study to find how I .-mi a microcosm... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...perusing only my condition 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...limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...perusing only my condition 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...limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas's shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens...not my mind : that surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any : I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...perusing only my condition and 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...limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be 9 nunquam minus solus, &c.] Hoc... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 694 pages
...forcible enunciation of the superiority of mind to matter about which so many have idly written. " The Earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above U3, but of the heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh which circumscribes me, limits... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...I am above Atlas, his " shoulders." Here follows the high excuse for this lofty self-exaltation: " The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. " The mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my " mind. That surface that tells the heavens... | |
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