 Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important...  Letters - Page 110by Robert Burns - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing 1 Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave." Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 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...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave ! RB ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788. For Lords or Kings I dinna mourn, E'en let... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...my dear friend, to what can all this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. Burns, however, found that an active gauger, with ten parishes to look after, could... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 556 pages
...my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .Kol i.-ui harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond ilcnth and the grave.' Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something different... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...we a piece of machinery, which like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the-passing accident ? Or do these workings argue something within...nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. Burns, however, found that an active gauger, with ten parishes to look after, could... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...of machinery, which like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident 1 Or do these workings argue something within us above...nature— and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. Burns, however, found that an active gauger, with ten parishes to look after, could... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .-Kdian clodl I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made... | |
 | F. Macgill - 1858 - 480 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this bo owing. Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the /Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to those awful realities ; a God who made all things — man's immaterial and immortal nature — and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 216 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...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world "of weal or wo beyond death and the grave." Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave ! KB CLXXIII. TO DR MOORE. ELLISLAITD, 4fh Jan. 1789. SIR, — As often... | |
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