 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 524 pages
...unfeeling abstraction, like the gods of the old Epicurean, the Great First Cause of this school is a being "Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, . And now a bubble burst, and now a world.' Such, assuredly, was not that God of the New Testament... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...philosophy, as well as fine poetry, in the Hues of Pope which every child can repeat : " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer in the condemned cell, who knows that he is... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pages
...as well as fine poetry, in the lines of Pope which every child can repeat : — • ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer in the condemned cell, who knows that he is... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 574 pages
...Even familiar as it is to our ear, we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858 - 478 pages
...familiar as it is to our ear, we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1858 - 598 pages
...as well as fine poetry, in the lines of Pope which every child can repeat : — • ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would...? \ Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, Antl licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer... | |
 | Edward William Lewis Davies - 1858 - 216 pages
...other in supplying him with handfuls of green clover, which he devoured as rapidly as it arrived. " Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." The negroes danced in rings to the monotonous music of the torn-torn: the ox was slain, and his blood... | |
 | 1861 - 506 pages
...sun and a monad, the planet Saturn and a diatom, &c., are the same in the great view of that Being, " Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin liurl'd, And now a bubble burst, aud now a world." before them ; and are, at the same time, of far... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 1981 - 370 pages
...bubbles on a sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to the sea return.24 And Kant did quote: Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.25 Kznt'sAllgemeineNaturgeschichte und Theorie desHimmels... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1986 - 708 pages
...May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are.125 Other pluralist passages quoted by Kant include these: Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or system into ruin hurl'd And now a bubble burst, and now a world. (I, lines 87-90) Superior beings,... | |
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 
