 | John Evans - Christian sects - 1844 - 300 pages
...merely accidental, but in an universal and necessary connexion. The first aspect of an innumerable multitude of worlds annihilates, as it were, my importance, as an animal being which must again restore to the planet it inhabits—a mere point in the universe—the matter... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1861 - 276 pages
...relation I stand in to all worlds of sense, I am compelled to recognize as universal and necessary. In the former, the first view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates my importance as an animal product, which, after a brief, and that incomprehensible, endowment with... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - German literature - 1859 - 849 pages
...connection, unlike the fortuitous relation I stand in to the world of sense, 1 am compelled to recognize, as necessary and universal. In the former, the first...compelled to refund its constituent matter to the planet—itself an atom in the universe—on which it grew. The aspect of the other, on the contrary,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1859 - 752 pages
...relation I stand in to all worlds of sense, I am compelled to recognize as universal and necessary. In the former the first view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates, as it were, 7iiy importance as an animal product, which, after a brief and that incomprehensible endowment with... | |
 | John Young - Rationalism - 1860 - 368 pages
...relation I stand in to all worlds of sense, I am compelled to recognize as universal and necessary. In the former, the first view of a countless multitude...annihilates, as it were, my importance as an animal product, which, after a brief — and that incomprehensible — endowment with the powers of life,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 pages
...relation I stand in to all worlds of sense, I am compelled to recognize as universal and necessary. In the former, the first view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates my importance as an animal product, which, after a brief, and that incomprehensible, endowment with... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Deaf - 1866 - 1222 pages
...relation I stand in to all worlds of sense, I am compelled to recognise, as universal and necessary. — In the former, the first view of a countless multitude...annihilates, as it were, my importance as an animal product, which, after a brief and that incomprehensible endowment with the powers of life, is compelled... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1866 - 900 pages
...relation I stand in to all worlds of sense, I am compelled to recognise, as universal and necessary. — In the former, the first view of a countless multitude...annihilates, as it were, my importance as an animal product, which, after a brief and that incomprehensible endowment with the powers of life, is compelled... | |
 | WM. T. HARRIS - 1869 - 396 pages
...as there in a merely accidental—but in a universal and necessary connection. The first beholding of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates, as it were, my importance as an animal creature, which must return the matter from which it was formed to its planet (a mere point in the... | |
 | Johann Gottlieb Fichte - Knowledge, Theory of - 1869 - 212 pages
...as there in a merely accidental—but in a universal and necessary connection. The first beholding of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates, as it were, my importance as an animal creature, which must return the matter from which it was formed to its planet (a mere point in the... | |
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The former view of a countless multitude of worlds annihilates as it were my importance as an animal creature... 
