Would you have the human body, which is a microcosm containing all the forms and powers of matter, organised in the most delicate and complex manner, to possess lower powers than those forms of matter exhibit separately in nature?
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
Being an honest man, I confess frankly that the first feeling produced by my father's lively whisper, was a kind o' pleasure, approaching as near to delight as any sensation I had yet discovered in my microcosm.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton
His image was "the broken mirror" multiplied in a thousand faithful fragments over everything fair and soft in that lovely microcosm before her.
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton