 The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is partially known to us: but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger Cycle of causes our little Epicycle revolves on? To the Minnow every cranny and...  Life of Thomas Carlyle - Page 169by Richard Garnett - 1887 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1924 - 694 pages
...within some few computed centuries and measured square miles. The course of Nature's phases on our own little fraction of a planet is partially known to...courses these depend on ; what infinitely larger cycle our little epicycle revolves on ? "To the minnow, every cranny and pebble of its little native creek... | |
 | Jeanne Gillespie Pennington - Quotations, English - 1899 - 196 pages
...itself to some few computed centuries and measured square-miles. The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is partially...pebble, and quality and accident of its little native Creek may have become familiar : but does the minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents,... | |
 | Quotations - 1899 - 704 pages
...guilty, avenging justice, docihe. To the man of firm purpose all men and things are servile. Gtetne. 10 To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar ; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents,... | |
 | Herbert Allen Giles - Chinese literature - 1901 - 474 pages
...does not reach to the positive-negative domain, to attempt to understand me, Chuang Tzu, is like a 1 "To the minnow, every cranny and pebble and quality and accident of its little naiive creek may have Ixjcome familiar ; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Didactic fiction - 1902 - 264 pages
...itself to some few computed centuries and ‘measured square-miles. The course of Nature's ‘phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is ‘partially...‘(of causes) our little Epicycle revolves on? To the NATURAL SUPERNATURALiSM 223 ‘Minnow every cranny and pebble, and quality and ‘accident, of its... | |
 | Arthur Temple Lyttelton, Edward Stuart Talbot - Religion in literature - 1904 - 376 pages
...itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles. The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is partially...pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native Creek may have become familiar ; but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents,... | |
 | Henry Grattan Guinness - 156 pages
...in it, especially of that of the Presbyterian Church of England. Nisbet & Co. 21, Berners Street. " To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and quality and accident of its native creek, may have become familiar ; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and the periodic... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1908 - 516 pages
...itself to some few computed centuries and measured square-miles. The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is partially...pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native Creek may have become familiar : but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1908 - 352 pages
...itself to some few computed centuries and measured ' square-miles. The course of Nature's phases, on this our ' little fraction of a Planet, is partially...pebble, ' and quality and accident, of its little native Creek may ' have become familiar : but does the Minnow understand ' the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Charles Seymour - France - 1915 - 298 pages
...and God's way with him here on earth." (Hero as Prophet, p. 67.) The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is partially...pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native Creek may have become familiar: but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents,... | |
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