Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in... The Opal - Page 881852Full view - About this book
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 243 Tenth, of ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fell.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 174? - 64 pages
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| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth,...each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
| 1860 - 566 pages
...to perish without endangering the whole fabric of organisation. So Pope sang : — ' From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.' Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the full creation leave a void , "Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd* From Nature's chain whatever link you strike , Tenth or ten thousandth...chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll A like essential to th' amazing "Whole , The least confusion but in one , not all That system only... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...one step broken, the great scale's destroy 'd: . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 24i Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike....if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
| Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 320 pages
...bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to thee ! From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth,...each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
| 1806 - 408 pages
...the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed -. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth,...if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...are from the lowest state of being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing."* 16. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. f This doctrine is precisely the same with that of the philosophical emperor. J 17. Just as absurd... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...are from the lowest state of being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing."* 16. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.f This doctrine is precisely the same with that of • the philosophical emperor. $ 17. Just... | |
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