| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1805 - 908 pages
...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Arc we a piece of machinery, which, like an Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...proofs of those awful and important realities — a God thdt made all things — man's immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal and woe beyond... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1806 - 416 pages
...Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like an Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature— and a world of weal and woe beyond death and the grave." This is of a very high tone; but the next exceeds it. It is "... | |
| John Evans - 1807 - 318 pages
...ot" the passing accident ? Or <io these workings argue something within us above the trodden ciod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities--.- God that made all things— man's immaterial and immortal nature— and a world of weal or woe beyond... | |
| 1809 - 530 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...argue' • something within us above the trodden clod ? * II. p. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same picture.... | |
| 1809 - 914 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing Ï Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Kolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod !" II. p.. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same picture"... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ?" II. p. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, us a part, indeed, of the same picture"... | |
| Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the JEoMan harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do these work, ings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .Eoliiiu harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do these workmgs argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Auilian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I. qwn myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities — a God that made all things—... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp. passive, takea the impression of the pass ing accident t Or do these workings argue something within us above...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave. No. LXIV. TO DR. MOORE. - Ellitland, near Dvmfriet, \'h Jan. 1789. SIR,... | |
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