 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...that art, < Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow ? And nothing greater yet allow'd than man. Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through...assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly? Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form a... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1854 - 184 pages
...that created them " in the beginning."* " He hangeth the earth on nothing." — Bible. Twas He — " Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly." — Young. * The Earth :e not a perfect sphere, but an oblate spheroid, an orauge-shaped ball, flattened... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1855 - 520 pages
...? And nothing greater yet allow'd, than man. Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot thro' vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's...assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow? And nothing greater yet allow'd than man. — AVho motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through...assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form... | |
 | P. C. H. - 1856 - 84 pages
...greater yet allowed by man. Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses-of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive lump...assume ' Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ? then each atom Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 pages
...14C5 Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow ? And nothing greater, yet allow'd, than man. — Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight 3 1451. Had there, &c. : Had there ever been a time when no thing or being whatever existed. 1452.... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...— that art man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow? And nothing greater, yet allowed, than man. Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, shot through vast masses of enormous weight t Who bade brute matter's restive lump assume such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...that art, Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow 1 And nothing greater, yet allowed than man. — Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through...restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wiugs to fly 1 Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man below ? And nothing greater, yet allowed than man. — Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight? Who bade brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly? Has matter innate... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 574 pages
...that art Vlan scarce can comprehend, could man bestow! And nothing greater yet allowed, than man.— Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight 1 Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly? ilas matter... | |
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Would want some other father ; — much design Is seen in all their motions, all their makes ; Design implies intelligence, and art ; That can't be from themselves — or man ; that art Man scarce can comprehend, could man bestow ? And nothing greater... 
