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" Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. "
Bentley's Miscellany - Page 272
1839
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 9

Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pages
...revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before, — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot know in any higher sense than this, any more...
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An Introduction to Geology, Illustrative of the General Structure of the ...

Robert Bakewell - Geology - 1815 - 546 pages
...this should teach us to be less confident in our own knowledge, for there are still remaining " more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy." Admitting the existence of central fire in the earth, it is not difficult to conceive that there may...
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Falkland [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton.].

Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1827 - 332 pages
...the terror which had so shaken, and the fancy which had so deluded, his mind. Are there not " more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy ?" A Spirit may hover in the air that we breathe: the depth of our most secret solitudes may be peopled...
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Falkland

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Epistolary fiction, English - 1830 - 124 pages
...the terror which had so shaken, and the fancy which had so deluded, his mind. Are there not " more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy ?" A spirit may hover in the air that we breathe : the depth of our most sacred solitudes may be peopled...
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The Magazine of the beau monde; or, Monthly journal of fashion [afterw.] The ...

1843 - 572 pages
...thus, as well as my insignificant self. And does not the great English dramatist say, ' There are mure things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy," They walked on through a side alley towards Che family garden — so called, hecause every memher оГ...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 4

1839 - 742 pages
...senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music on their ear. BEN JONSON. " THERE are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in...according to some ingenious and speculative minds, are mero wrecks and remnants of the vast islands of Atalantis, mentioned by Plato as having been swallowed...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 21

Fashion - 1844 - 476 pages
...their honesty beyond suspicion. But we have been content to own, with Hamlet, ! that " there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy." In I the sui. i' dispassionate spirit, avoiding alike the ignorance of rash credulity or of blind unbelief,...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 12

1838 - 850 pages
...pretend not to account for the effects produced. We are very willing to believe that " There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamed of in our philosophy." Scepticism is not always the mark of superior wisdom — and though we believe the minor explanation...
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The Vision of Rubeta: An Epic of the Island of Manhattan

Laughton Osborn - 1838 - 472 pages
...evangelical Christian " like our hero ; for, as he says himself, albeit hit brains are zigzag, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy (p. 61); and again, if testimony lUce that to which he has referred, is to be rejected, inhere are...
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The token and Atlantic souvenir: a Christmas and New Year's present

1838 - 358 pages
...the purpose, — a little Latin book, entitled, Nostradamus de Rebus Occultis. Truly, there are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamed of in our philosophy ! Who could have judged from thy external appearance, old boy, what I found when I turned over thy...
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