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" The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I... "
The Edinburgh Review - Page 442
1834
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...not my mind ; that surface that tells the heavens thfey have an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty....
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1864 - 598 pages
...outside, pursuing only my condition and fortune, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas's shoulders. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...but of that heavenly and celestial part within us There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 1

1833 - 546 pages
...said Milton, in one of those lofty passages in which his very poetry is eclipsed by his prose, — " The Earth is a point, not only in respect of the Heavens...tells the Heavens they have an end, cannot persuade me 1 have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty. Though the number of the arc do measure...
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On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The Valley of the Rye ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...eye on; for the other, I use it but like ray globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation. The earth is a point, not only in respect of the heavens...me, limits not my mind ; that surface that tells the heaven$>ilj hath an .end, cannot persuade me I have any. Whilst I study to find how I .-mi a microcosm...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

1831 - 370 pages
...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens...limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas's shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens...not my mind : that surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any : I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas his shoulders. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens...limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be above three hundred and sixty...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...perusing only my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude ; for I am above Atlas's shoulders.2 The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens...limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end cannot persuade me I have any. I take my circle to be 9 nunquam minus solus, &c.] Hoc...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 7

1836 - 694 pages
...forcible enunciation of the superiority of mind to matter about which so many have idly written. " The Earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above U3, but of the heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh which circumscribes me, limits...
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Italy: a poem. With historical and classical notes

John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pages
...round for my recreation. Men that " look upon my outside, perusing only my condition and for" tunes, do err in my altitude, for I am above Atlas, his "...but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. " The mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my " mind. That surface that tells the heavens...
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