 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1869 - 344 pages
...Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bade brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms,...Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form a universe of dust. Has matter none ? then, whence these glorious forms, And boundless flights, from... | |
 | J. S. Knowles - 1874 - 458 pages
...— Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight? Who bade brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms,...Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form a universe of dust Has matter none? then, whence these glorious forms, And boundless flights, from... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...all in all." This aspect of the case was well put long ago by the author of The Night Thoughts:— " Has matter innate motion ? Then each atom Asserting...? Then whence these glorious forms, And boundless flights, from shapeless and reposed? Has matter more than motion ? Has it thought, Judgment, and genius... | |
 | John Cheap (fict.name.) - 1876 - 496 pages
...? Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast maw* of enormous weight? 23 Who bade brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms,...dust : Has matter none? Then whence these glorious form* And boundless flights, from shapeless, and repos'd ? Has matter more than motion ? — has it... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 836 pages
...greater yet allow'd than man. — Who, motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses tGuG E F 7 a universe of dust: Has matter none ! Then whence these glorious forms And boundless flights, from... | |
 | 1877 - 492 pages
...I 'Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight? Who bade brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms,...none? Then whence these glorious forms And boundless flights, from shapeless, and repos'd ? Has matter more than motion ? — has it thought, Judgment,... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1878 - 292 pages
...Who motion, foreign to the smallest grain, Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who hid rude matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and...? Then whence these glorious forms, And boundless flights, from shapeless and repos'd ? Has matter more than motion ? Has it THOUGHT, JUDGMENT, and GENIUS... | |
 | John Guthrie - 1878 - 230 pages
...all in all." This aspect of the case was well put long ago by the author of The Night Thoughts:— " Has matter innate motion? Then each atom Asserting...none? Then whence these glorious forms, And boundless flight, from shapeless and reposed? Has matter more than motion? Has it thought, Judgment, and genius?... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879 - 624 pages
...grain, •Shot through vast masses of enormous weight \ Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume 14T0 Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has...? then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right 1473 To dance, would form a universe of dust : Has matter none 1 Then whence these glorious forms And... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1879 - 474 pages
...will occur to most readers : — Who Motion foreign to the smallest grain Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute Matter's restive...assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Against this notion of Descartes the great deist John Toland, whose ashes lie unmarked in Putney... | |
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Shot through vast masses of enormous weight ? Who bid brute matter's restive lump assume Such various forms, and gave it wings to fly ? Has matter innate motion ? then each atom, Asserting its indisputable right To dance, would form an universe of dust... 
