67 Metaphors for space

The open space around is a kind of convalescent marsh; that is, canals and deep ditch drains have been opened all through it, and into these the waters of the marsh flow, as a token of gratitude for the delicate little attention; at the same time, the adjacent soil, freed from its liquid encumbrance, courts the attractive charms of the sun, and has already risen from two and a half to three and a half feet above its marshy level.

In larger compositions, breath would doubtless have failed the poet,the greater space would have been an injury to him.

In the same way the various spaces are only parts of one and the same space, and can be thought in it alone.

Whatever occupies space is corporeal:spirit occupies space, therefore, &c. &c. 1129.

This horse-shoe of pipes, in fact, forms the boiler, and the space between is the furnace; the whole being enclosed with sheet-iron.

The space that separates them at present is about sixty miles; but when the obstructions to the navigation down the Patowmack, which, passing through an extensive and fertile country, leads to the seat[Footnote: The writer means intended seat of federal empire.] of federal empire; and thence widening by degrees to the width of twelve miles, empties itself into the bay of Chesapeak.

The synthetic character of geometrical truths is explained by the intuitive nature of space, their apodictic character by its apriority, and their objective reality or applicability to empirical objects by the fact that space is the condition of (external) perception.

Which three words, standing for one and the same idea, may, no doubt, with the same evidence and certainty be affirmed one of another, as each of itself: and it is as certain, that, whilst I use them all to stand for one and the same idea, this predication is as true and identical in its signification, that 'space is body,' as this predication is true and identical, that 'body is body,' both in signification and sound.

The space dividing them was not fifteen years but seven.

The space in that nook was large enough to hold a small chair, a table to match, and a few toy boxes.

The huddling together of our American cities is due to the recentness of the time when space was our greatest enemy and sparseness our chief discouragement.

" Our space is but a limitation of infinite "room to move about": "In my Father's house are many mansions."

Space and time are the sole a priori elements of the sensibility; all other sensuous concepts, even motion and change, presuppose perception; the movable in space and the succession of properties in an existing thing are empirical data.

Einstein supposes that space is Euclidean where it is sufficiently remote from matter, but that the presence of matter causes it to become slightly non-Euclideanthe more matter there is in the neighborhood, the more space will depart from Euclid.

For half a century past, the only remaining spaces of complete mystery, of utter blankness on our maps, were the two Poles.

" Space is no barrier on the astral plane, as you have seen in the preceding chapters of this book.

Can the brief space between these dates have been merely an accident?

(a) The Pure Intuitions (Transcendental Aesthetic).%The first part of the Critique of Reason, the Transcendental Aesthetic, lays down the position that space and time are not independent existences, not real beings, and not properties or relations which would belong to things in themselves though they were not intuited, but forms of our intuition, which have their basis in the subjective constitution of our, the human, mind.

Wearisome are they, till the sun-god pales Beneath the surges of the western wave, And the last fold of his golden mantle trails O'er the horizon where Earth's vision fails, And space becomes a darkness and a grave.

For us, the children of eternal love, the very air our spirits breathe, and without which they can not live, is the eternal life; for us, the brothers and sisters of a countless family, the very space in which our souls can exist, is the love of each and every soul of our kind.

Here intervenes the short breathing-space, of which mention has been madean interval employed by Roger Sterne in "spending a great deal of money" on a "large house," which he hired and furnished; and then "in the year one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, all unhinged again."

The necessity of putting so many casks, barrels and boxes within doors, had materially circumscribed the limits; and space was a great desideratum for several reasons, health in particular.

The space covered by this magnificent building is 140 metres by 122, (about 470 feet by 410), or nearly four and a half acres.

Both 'space' and 'time,' as defined for mathematical purposes, are ideal constructions drawn from empirical 'space' (extension) and 'time' (succession) feelings, and purged of the subjective variations of these experiences.

For instance, the vocal cords may be brought so closely together that the space becomes a mere slit.

67 Metaphors for  space