 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...  Lord Lytton's Miscellaneous Works - Page 153by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 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 they have an end, cannot per'suade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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 heavenly and celestial...not my mind ; that surface that tells the heavens they 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... | |
 | 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...not my mind ; that surface that tells the Heavens they have an end, cannot persuade me 1 have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty.... | |
 | 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 - 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...heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any : I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty ; though the number of the arc do measure my... | |
 | 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...heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty ; though the number of the arc do measure my body,... | |
 | 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...heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty ; though the number of the arc do measure my body,... | |
 | 1833 - 484 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...not my mind ; that surface that tells the Heavens they have an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty.... | |
 | 1833 - 488 pages
...Milton, in one of those lofty passages in which his very poetry is eclipsed by his prose,—" The Earth 3 is a point, not only in respect of the Heavens above...not my mind ; that surface that tells the Heavens they have an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty.... | |
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