 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - 418 pages
...movement of his made to vibrate from the centre to the circumference. It is as if the universe were ono vast picture gallery, in some part of which the entire...is as if each man had his foot upon the point where ten thousand telegraphic wires meet from every part of the universe, and he were able, with each volition,... | |
 | Rufus Wheelwright Clark - 1853 - 288 pages
...indelible impression upon the universe. In remarking upon this subject, a distinguished writer says, "It is as if each man had his foot upon the point where ten thousand telegraphic wires meet from every part of the universe, and he were able with each volition... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1859 - 628 pages
...universe were a tremulous mass of jelly which every movement of his made to vibrate from the centre to the circumference. It is as if the universe were...is as if each man had his foot upon the point where ten thousand telegraphic wires meet from every part of the universe, and he were able, with each volition,... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1860 - 400 pages
...universe were a tremulous mass of jelly, which every movement of his made to vibrate from the centre to the circumference. It is as if the universe were...is as if each man had his foot upon the point where ten thousand telegraphic wires meet from every part ot the universe, and he were able, with each volition,... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1885 - 336 pages
...that the universe is one vast picturegallery, "in some part of which," as it has been forcibly said, "the entire history of this world, and of each individual,...sketched by countless artists, with unerring skill." Let it be something for us to remember, that from day to day, it seems almost a certain thing, that... | |
 | Levi Balmer Hartman - 1898 - 312 pages
...universe were a mass of jelly which every movement of his made it to vibrate from centre to circumference. It is as if each man had his foot upon the point where ten thousand telegraphic wires meet from every part of the universe, and he were able with each volition... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1920 - 104 pages
...universe were a tremulous mass of jelly, which every movement of his (man) made to vibrate from the centre to the circumference. It is as if the universe were...gallery, in some part of which the entire history of this * "Radium Explained," p, 117. .world, and of each individual, is shown on canvas, sketched by countless... | |
 | Charles Swann - 1991 - 298 pages
...part on Babbage of calculating engine fame) Hitchcock sums up almost hymning the body electric: If is as if each man had his foot upon the point where ten thousand telegraphic wires meet from every part of the universe, and he were able, with each volition,... | |
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It is just as if the universe were a tremulous mass of jelly which every movement of his made to vibrate from the centre to the circumference. It is as if the universe were one vast picture gallery, in some part of which the entire history of this world,... 