| PURSUITS. - 1798 - 422 pages
...crying ivory, fweating brafs, and ferruginous light! Thefe were much to my purpofe, and reminded me that there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in my Philoibphy. Moft certainly, Sir, the water of the Canal did heave dreadfully ; and the region, ci-devant... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812 - 486 pages
...and tangible bodies, Burgersclic, Des Cartes, and Newton, all in a breath ; however, he soon found that " there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in my philosophy," and I really believe he parted from me with the happiest assurance of his own superiority,... | |
| 1828 - 398 pages
...must of course presume, of latitudinarian construction. And although it has since been discovered, that there were more things in heaven and earth, than were dreamt of in their philosophy,' yet I would not tempt the indignant ire of my opponent, by appealing to an authority, in connection... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...rigid devotees of antiquity, while he captivated them by the variety and splendour of his vindication, that " there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy." The first book, therefore, maintains "the excellency of learning and knowledge." This may seem, now-a-days,... | |
| 1842 - 840 pages
...astrology : he imagined the starry host to possess an influence over the actions and feelings of men, and ' that there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in our philosophy.' Varley was wholly devoid of worldly prudence, and was consequently always in difficulty.... | |
| 1843 - 454 pages
...astrology: he imagined the starry host to possess an influence over the actions and feelings of men, and ' that there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in our philosophy.' Varley was wholly devoid of worldly prudence, and was consequently always in difficulty.... | |
| Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 326 pages
...experienced, bearings and relations between creeds and actions which she had never investigated, or indeed that there were more things in Heaven and Earth than were dreamt of in her philosophy. Too gentle in character to be ever violent in her expressions, too upright to be uncharitable... | |
| Catherine Crowe - 1847 - 384 pages
...by use. So Lilly had lived; but so she lived no longer. She had arrived at that blessed knowledge, that there were " more things in Heaven and Earth than were dreamt of in her philosophy !" CHAPTER IV. THE PAINS AND PERILS OP A BOY'S LOVE. THEEE is nothing that confounds... | |
| Lady Georgiana Fullerton - 1847 - 324 pages
...experienced, bearings and relations between creeds and actions which she had never investigated, or indeed that there were more things in Heaven and Earth than were dreamt of in her philosophy. Too gentle in character to be ever violent in her expressions, too upright to be uncharitable... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...rigid devotees of antiquity, while he captivated them by the variety and splendour of his vindication, that " there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy." The first book, therefore, maintains " the excellency of learning and knowledge." Thi? may seem, now-a-days,... | |
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