Are 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 us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important... Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 296by Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do these workings argue something above us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to...nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death arid the grave. BB (81). NO. CLVII. TO DR. MOORE. Ellisland, Jan. 4t7i, 1789. SIR — As often as I... | |
| 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...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 not be a successful... | |
| 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...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 not be a successful... | |
| 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...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 not be a successful... | |
| 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... | |
| James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 pages
...was no unbeliever. In Burns' own words, in the sublime works of Nature he saw proofs of " a God who made all things — man's immaterial and immortal...world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." The man who drew such deductions from nature, could not be irreligious. But we still live too near... | |
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