 | 1881 - 898 pages
...in knowledge shows us more clearly the limitation of the knowledge we possess. Truly, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. Science is continually teaching us the lesson that the universe is larger and more complex than formerly... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1881 - 278 pages
...in abeyance to reason, it knows too well, the truth of the poet's assertion, that " there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy," to assume at once a dogmatic unbelief. There are men in the world to whose vision, if we judge by their... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1882 - 948 pages
...thousand others in my sea experience, have satisfied me to believe with Hamlet, that " ' There ore more things in Heaven and Earth, Than are dreamed of in our philosophy.' " Once open the way for the supernatural, and it is surprising what a body of testimony you can procure.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 488 pages
...senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music on their ear. — BEN JONSON. HEKE are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy," and among these may be placed that marvel and mystery of the seas, the Island of St. Brandan. Those... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 pages
...revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before, — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. It is the lighting up of the mist by the sun. Man cannot know in any higher sense than this, any more... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 334 pages
...which comets present to us. They still teach us, as they have so long taught, that ' there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.' Spectator. THE AUGUST METEORS. ON the nights of August 10 to 14, and sometimes till several nights... | |
 | 1889 - 756 pages
...located, that normally starts the nocturnal inhibition that leads to sleep. Evidently " there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy," and M. Brown-Séquard, granting his demolition of the theory of cerebral anœmia, has not replaced... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 442 pages
...senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music on their ear. — BEN JONSOH. JIIERE are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy," and among these may be placed that marvel and mystery of the seas, the Island of St. Brandan. Those... | |
 | 1884 - 842 pages
...dream or simple impression there is such a thing as presentment, being a witness that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in" our "philosophy." Herewith I submit a statement of the case : Mr. S., the subject of this narrative, was about fifty... | |
 | Richard Brodhead Westbrook - 1884 - 266 pages
...accept the narrow horizon of our feeble minds as the boundary-line of the universe. " There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy." We now have perfect knowledge of many things of which we were once ignorant. The embryo man in the... | |
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Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. 
