 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pagine
...us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Neecience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science...illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, roiling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe... | |
 | Mariner - 1851 - 86 pagine
...deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, — on which all science swims a mere superficial film. This world, after all our...— wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more, to all who will think of it." To what, then, are the operations of nature to be attributed? — to what... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pagine
...; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science...This world, after all our science and sciences, is si ill a miracle — wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more— to whosoever will think of it. Or... | |
 | 1853 - 638 pagine
...not yet know ; we can never know at all We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud of nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science...magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."* We cheerfully admit, that man's daily necessities have acted as a stimulus to the advancement of physical... | |
 | Joseph B. Gross - 1856 - 414 pagine
...; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science...miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more to whomsoever will 1,>iii/;,' of it." In the animal kingdom, especially, primeval man presumes he sees... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1859 - 702 pagine
...us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from ua the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. Thii world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 pagine
...; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science...magical and more — to whosoever will think of it. Lectures on Heroes, p. 11. WHAT IS MADNESS. Witchcraft, and all manner of Spectre-work, and Demonology,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 pagine
...to have an end ; and we neglect the next, as if it were never to have a beginning." — FENELON. " That great mystery of Time, were there no other ;...the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Tune, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1865 - 660 pagine
...a poor science that would hide from us the great, deep, sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither wo can never penetrate, on which all science swims as...sciences, is still a miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable, magieal and more, to whosoever will think of it — Lectures on Ileroes, p. 10. D the free vent of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 232 pagine
...us ; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, whither we can never penetrate, on which all science...whosoever will think of it. That great mystery of TIME, wore there no other ; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on,... | |
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... electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great... 
