 | Theodore William Dwight, Columbia University - English language - 1859 - 110 pages
...appointed laws. "What if," says he, "nature should leave for a while the observation of her own laws; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our...celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and turn themselves any way, as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of Heaven, which now as a... | |
 | Theodore William Dwight, Columbia University - English language - 1859 - 102 pages
...leave for a while the observation of her own laws; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over onr heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and turn themselves any way, as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of Heaven, which now as a... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame...should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubilities turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which... | |
 | John William Burgon - Bible - 1861 - 584 pages
...which would convict him of talking nonsense? — But this is poetry. Then take Hooker's prose : — " If the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; ... if the Moon should wander from her beaten way m," &c. Did Hooker suppose that heaven is " an arch," which... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1862 - 638 pages
...the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which they now have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected...irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it may happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now, as a giant, doth run his unwearied course,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...wander," Jkc. Was Shakcspear in this place thinking of a passage in Hooker's book "Concerning Laws, &c."? judgment : by my Iwppen ; if the prince of the light of heaven, which now 3 * *»K*nt i?111 run tis unwearied course... | |
 | James McCosh - Providence and government of God - 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...of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth ran his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing fuintness, begin to stand and to... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 722 pages
...dissolve itself ; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions ; if the prince of the Light of Heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied...course, should, as it were, through a languishing sickness, begin to stand and to rest himself.... what would become of man himself, whom these things... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame...course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintnesa, begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...principal and mother elements of the wi>-'d, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame...happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which nu\. , a_ as a giant, doth run his unwearied corirse, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness,... | |
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Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, 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 are made, should lose the qualities... 
