 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Side 2821828Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 sider
...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...partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities—a God that made all things—man's immaterial and immortal nature—and a world of weal... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 sider
...my dear friend, to what can this be owing 1 ' Are we a piece of machinery, which, like, the ^o'lian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod 1 I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sider
...of machinery, which, like the Kolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing acci»lent ? Or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod?" — Vol. ii. pp. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same... | |
 | Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 sider
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing P 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 PI own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1854 - 98 sider
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing P Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .ZEolian 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 254 sider
...machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ? Oi do these workings argue something within us above...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave." Burns however found that an active gauger, with ten parishes to look... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 342 sider
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we apiece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to suck proofs of those awful and important realities — a God that made all things — man's immaterial... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 sider
...dear friend, to what can all this be 9* owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod 1 1 own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities—a God that made all... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 sider
...my dear friend, to what can all this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the jEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod 1 1 own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities — a God that made all... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 sider
...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... | |
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