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" ... more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy ; they consigned this hapless nonconformist to profound neglect. "
Grantley Manor: A Tale - Page 172
by Georgiana Fullerton - 1849 - 318 pages
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Impartial Strictures on the Poem Called "The Pursuits of Literature:": And ...

PURSUITS. - 1798 - 422 pages
...crying ivory, fweating brafs, and ferruginous light! Thefe were much to my purpofe, and reminded me that there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in my Philoibphy. Moft certainly, Sir, the water of the Canal did heave dreadfully ; and the region, ci-devant...
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St. Clair; Or, The Heiress of Desmond

Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812 - 486 pages
...and tangible bodies, Burgersclic, Des Cartes, and Newton, all in a breath ; however, he soon found that " there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in my philosophy," and I really believe he parted from me with the happiest assurance of his own superiority,...
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The African Repository, Volume 3

African Americans - 1828 - 398 pages
...must of course presume, of latitudinarian construction. And although it has since been discovered, that there were more things in heaven and earth, than were dreamt of in their philosophy,' yet I would not tempt the indignant ire of my opponent, by appealing to an authority,...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...rigid devotees of antiquity, while he captivated them by the variety and splendour of his vindication, that " there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy." The first book, therefore, maintains "the excellency of learning and knowledge."...
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volumes 15-16

1842 - 840 pages
...assumptions to conceal their incompetency, but were content to admit, at the end of their labours, that ' There were more things in heaven and earth, Than were dreamt of in their philosophy.' " WBH Hereditary Transmission of Dieeasc. — The following quotation is from one...
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Grantley Manor: A Tale

Georgiana Fullerton - Religious fiction - 1847 - 326 pages
...equally indifferent to her), she had the very highest respect for her own understanding, and anything she did not herself discern, or feel, or conceive,...from her path, and put aside from her consideration, everything that did not precisely tally with her own pre-considered opinions. A clever American writer1...
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The Story of Lilly Dawson, Volume 3

Catherine Crowe - 1847 - 384 pages
...by use. So Lilly had lived; but so she lived no longer. She had arrived at that blessed knowledge, that there were " more things in Heaven and Earth than were dreamt of in her philosophy !" CHAPTER IV. THE PAINS AND PERILS OP A BOY'S LOVE. THEEE is nothing that confounds sense with insanity...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 16

Literature - 1850 - 824 pages
...belief that they were preternatural phenomena sent to convince the couceited Sadducoeism of the age, that there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in its philosophy. I own I have no such incontinent facility of faith. I cannot conceive tho menta' affinities...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...rigid devotees of antiquity, while he captivated them by the variety and splendour of his vindication, that " there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy." The first book, therefore, maintains " the excellency of learning and knowledge."...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...rigid devotees of antiquity, while he captivated them by the variety and splendour of his vindication, that " there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy." The first book, therefore, maintains " the excellency of learning and knowledge."...
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