| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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 above...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
...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 above...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
...Milton, in one of those lofty passages in which his very poetry is eclipsed by his prose, — " The Earth is a point, not only in respect of the Heavens above...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 - 362 pages
...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...not my mind ; that surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm or little... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...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 above...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 - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...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 above...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
...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 above...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 - 1831 - 362 pages
...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 above...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 - 1835 - 592 pages
...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 above...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... | |
| 1837 - 568 pages
...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...not ' my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, ' cannot persuade me I have any. . . . Whilst I study to find ' how I am a microcosm... | |
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