| Dress - 1878 - 186 pages
...Put this body into them, compress it here, add to it there, till it present the likeness of nothing in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. Behold it done ! This now is my admirable creation, — a woman after my own heart. Do you not admire... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 pages
...commandment,' said the doctor, ' for in your pictures you make not the likeness of ' any thing that is in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the • earth.' 3 See his Letters to Jervas, and a short copy of verses on a fan designed by himself on the story of... | |
| William George Fretton - 1879 - 398 pages
...the hyssop which grows out of the wall—in a word, he is expected to know all that is to be known, in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth—all food for poetry and disquisition— yet rarely gives the world the benefit of his cogitations.... | |
| Universities and colleges - 1879 - 618 pages
...our Longfellow ? I hardly dare attempt to describe his style, it was so unlike anything before seen " in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters undei' the earth." Into half a dozen short lines he would compress the life and adventures of a whole... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1880 - 640 pages
...stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything " in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." The poem on the Omnipresence of the Deity commences with a description of the creation, in which we... | |
| Education - 1882 - 698 pages
...of a relation between the sayings of the book, which we repeated with Chinese accuracy, and anything in the " heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." In the master's room, at last, ideas were presented, and by other means than verbal reiteration ; but... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1882 - 878 pages
...stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything " in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." The poem on the Omnipresence of the Deity commences with a description of the creation, in which we... | |
| William Ballantyne Hodgson - 1883 - 428 pages
...the Second Commandment, which forbids the worship only of what bears a likeness to anything that is in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. His attention to the smallest details is something wonderful. He suggests to one teacher the propriety... | |
| WILLIAM T HARRIS - 1884 - 482 pages
...all intents and purposes, an idea. We have already shown that when we cry " Wolf ! " we do not mean "in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth," but a wolf right there. That is implied by some gesture or other which is properly embraced within... | |
| Philosophy - 1884 - 462 pages
...all intents and purposes, an idea. We have already shown that when we cry " Wolf!" we do not mean " in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth," but a wolf right there. That is implied by some gesture or other which is properly embraced within... | |
| |