 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...from infinite'to thee, R 2 From thee to nothing. — On superiour pow'rs Were we to press, inferiour might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void,...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 2. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th* amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing — On superior powVl Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the...destroy'd: From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...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 gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...together, that you cannot injure the one class without eventually injuring the other. Society is like a chain, — - " Whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." The mere dictates of a wise self-love would teach us to regulate ourselves ; and that foresight, which... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1834 - 394 pages
...on Man," Epist. iv '237, beginning, " Vast chain of being! which from God began," and proceeds to " From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Waller, whose last verse is as fine as any in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...distinction between man and brutes is the moral sense, the faculty of discerning between vice and virtue. From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to the amazing whole ; The least confusion but... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - English literature - 1835 - 524 pages
...et la parole.* 151 • Van chain of Being ! which from God began,* and proceeds to 1 From nature'! chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.1 Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Waller, whose last verse is as fine as any... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, which no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing.— On superior powers Were we...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1836 - 264 pages
...ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's, destrcy'd: From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike 2 And, if each system in gradation roll, , . Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one htep hroken, e hangs o'er all ; on yon it lies To live or perish ! to he safe, he wise ! In flowery hreaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to the amazing whole,... | |
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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... 
