 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...thing like a brute beast; a~nd there are angels, or rather fantasies with wings, like unto nothing; in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth — no, nor any »h«re else." Our very intelligent Traveller appears to have left... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 922 pages
...we saunter by the many-voiced ocean, or lie rocking on her heaving bosom, be thou well advised, that neither in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth, was there ever creature dearer to the great Maker of all than the mystic oeing who... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - Rome (Italy) - 1820 - 410 pages
...made in scrupulous conformity to the Tenth Commandment ; for they are not " the likeness of any thing in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth." Yet the praise of Guido of Siena was sung by the first poets of his day; and his... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - Rome (Italy) - 1822 - 434 pages
...made in scrupulous conformity to the Second Commandment ; for they are not " the likeness of any thing in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth." Yet the praise of Guido of Siena was sung by the first poets of his day ; and his... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - Literature - 1833 - 550 pages
...oddities ; we have fortune-tellers and fate-ladies ; things new and strange, the likeness of which is not in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth ; things, too, which by their very strangeness attract the attention, and draw the... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 740 pages
...were " a-weary a-weary," and would that they were dead. But these were a kind of men who saw beauty, neither in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the ocean with its grand old song and varying face ; who simply kept themselves alive by regretful dreams... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Psychology - 1845 - 348 pages
...affirmed by fundamental phenomena. In this lower creation man stands alone. There is nothing like him " in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth." There he stands, " the image and glory of God." Fallen though he is, . „ " his... | |
 | Sarah Rogers Haight - Europe - 1846 - 380 pages
...red, blue, yellow and green, laid on in every variety of form and figure, the likeness of which is neither in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth, and they may therefore glory in them without breaking the second commandment. This... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Free will and determinism - 1846 - 250 pages
...upon nothing ! It has no foundation whatever ! The Intelligence looks into blank midnight. No object in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth, appears. Still, without any perception external or internal of any object or phenomenon,... | |
 | 1851 - 408 pages
...is bewildered and lost. When a poet chooses for his subject that which has a likeness to nothing " in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth," he proves his want of title to the name. The real poet never complains of the poverty... | |
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There must be nothing like it in the heavens above nor in the earth beneath nor in the waters under the earth ; and in many cases there is not. 
