 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - 786 páginas
...like all other things of this living world, it gives the lie to the theory of transmutation : — " Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then proceeds she to the perfect" — and what is this, in other words, but our theory of development ? The old Poet tells us of the... | |
 | 1853 - 524 páginas
...Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grotv old, and leap o'er nil the means. ..,.. ,.. I!"' Nature doth first beget the imperfect — then Proceeds she to the perfect. Of that airy . .And oily water, mercury is engendered ; • • Sulphur of the fat and earthy part... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme. As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the Imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. Of that airy And oily water, mercury Is engendered ; Sulphur of the fat and earthy part ; the one.... | |
 | sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. Of that airy And oily water, mercury is engender'd ; Sulphur of the fat and earthy part; the one, Which... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 576 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. Of that airy And oily water, mercury is engender'd ; Sulphur of the fat and earthy part ; the one,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 576 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. .Of that airy And oily water, mercury is engender'd ; Sulphur of the fat and earthy part ; the one,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 628 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. Of that airy And oily water, mercury is engender'd ; Sulphur of the fat and earthy part ; the one,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 430 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect Of that airy And oily water, mercury is engender'd ; Sulphur of the fat and earthy part: the one, Which... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1890 - 344 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. Of that airy And oily water, mercury is engendered ; Sulphur of the fat and earthy part ; the one,... | |
 | Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir - 1894 - 128 páginas
...matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. And he gives some hints of the way by which ' the parents of all other metals ' may be produced from... | |
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Nor can this remote matter suddenly Progress so from extreme unto extreme, As to grow gold, and leap o'er all the means. Nature doth first beget the imperfect, then Proceeds she to the perfect. 
