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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the heavens as revealed by ... - Page 41
by Thomas De Quincey - 1853
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 9

1846 - 610 pages
...grandeur of xhe shadowy. ways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitudes, by spans — lhat seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without measure were...the eternities below : above was below, below was ahove, tu the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height...
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The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1848 - 380 pages
...gates, whose architraves, \vh se arch- ways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitude by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. Withinwere stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above was below — below was above, to the man...
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The Orbs of Heaven: Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 374 pages
...triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose, at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed...
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The Orbs of Heaven, Or, The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 366 pages
...triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose, at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 26

American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...triumphal gates, whose architraves,.whose archways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose, at altitude, by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without...archways, beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that sealed the eternities below ; above was below ; below was above to the man stripped of gravitating...
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The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1852 - 312 pages
...whose archways, — horizontal, upright — rested, rose— at altitude by spans — that seemed ghosty from infinitude. Without measure were the architraves,...gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above was below ' — below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was...
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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers: System of the heavens as revealed by ...

Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 320 pages
...stood around his throne he said, — "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh : cleanse hia vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils : only...number were the archways, beyond memory the gates. With, in were stairs that scaled the eternities above, that descended to the eternities below : above...
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Anti-Theism: its moral and philosophical blindness in a world of realities ...

P. C. H. - 1856 - 84 pages
...triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose, at attitudes by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without...beyond memory the gates. Within were stairs that scaled eternities below — above was below, below was above, to the man stripped of a gravitating body :...
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The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great ...

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1859 - 382 pages
...gates, whose architraves, wh SB arch-ways — horizontal, upright — rested, rose — at altitude by spans — that seemed ghostly from infinitude....gates. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below ; above was below — below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body : depth was swallowed...
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Sketches of and from Jean Paul Richter

Jean Paul F. Richter, Jean Paul - 1859 - 96 pages
...up triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways, horizontal, upright, rested, rose at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly, from infinitude. Without...gates. Within were stairs, that scaled the eternities below ; above was below, below was above to the man stripped of gravitating body ; depth was swallowed...
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