| James McCosh - 1863 - 588 pages
...qualities which they now have— if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loose and dissolve itself — if celestial spheres should...turn themselves any way as it might happen — if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth ran his unwearied course, should, as... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 720 pages
...while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof ail things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the forme of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should lo^eu and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 738 pages
...while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of theworld, whereof ail things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they bave ; if the formt of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loseu and dissolve itself ;... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pages
...while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of theworld, whereof ail things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they bave; if the forme of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should losen and dissolve itself ;... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...though it were for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world...volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now, as a giant, doth run his unwearied course, should, as... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...for a while, the observation of her own laws ; if those principal and mother elements of the wi>-'d, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should...volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which nu\. , a_ as a giant, doth run his unwearied corirse, should,... | |
| English Association - 1924 - 156 pages
...volubility ' in Hooker is among the earliest in English, where the word has the primary Latin sense ; ' If celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions,...and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way sis it might happen ...' (EP I, iii. 2). Bacon uses 'voluble' in the Latin sense (Advancement of Learning,... | |
| John Broadbent - 1972 - 198 pages
...'little world of man' as an individual and as a 'body politic' - should imitate the macrocosm: if the celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions...volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen . . . what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve? See we not plainly that... | |
| 1924 - 978 pages
...though it were but for a while, tie observation of her own Laws ; if those Principal and Mother Elements the World, whereof all things in this lower World are made, should lose lie qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that Heavenly Arch |rected over our heads should... | |
| Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws ; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world...volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course3, should as... | |
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