| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| Georgiana Fullerton - Religious fiction - 1847 - 326 pages
...which she superintended, of the new church which they were building in one spot, and the cottages Ihey were erecting or improving in another, and watched...her own pre-considered opinions. A clever American writer1 has said that there are some points of belief which we must not be always reconsidering, but... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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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