| Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 448 Seiten
...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...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. Burns, however, found that an active gauger, with ten parishes to... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 454 Seiten
...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...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. Burns, however, found that an active gauger, with ten parishes to... | |
| John Wilson - 1857 - 466 Seiten
...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...immaterial and immortal nature— and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave. Burns, however, found that an active gauger, with ten parishes to... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Robert Burns - 1859 - 738 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 218 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 Seiten
...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 7 I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all... | |
| James Ballantine - 1859 - 630 Seiten
...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 nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." The man who drew such deductions from nature, could not be irreligious.... | |
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