 | George Willson - 1844 - 300 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. — Burns. LESSON XXXIX. The Humming Bird. — AUDUBON. 1 WHERE is... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1844 - 452 Seiten
...enthusiasm of devotion or poetry. " Do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod 7 I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal and wo beyond death and the grave." f Audubon, In his Introduction to his flne work on Birds, says, " The... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 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...argue something within us above the trodden clod?" — voL ii. p. 195 — 197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 Seiten
...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...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 - 1845 - 594 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 clodl I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...me, my dear friend, to what can this he owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the folian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...accident? Or do these workings argue something within us ahove the trodden clod ? I own myself partisl to such proofs of those awful and important realities... | |
 | James Marshall - 1846 - 186 Seiten
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the /Koliun harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave. Of his character and of the variety of opinion regarding the treatment... | |
 | James Marshall - 1846 - 180 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...those awful and important realities : a God that made aU things, m;m's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 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...argue something within us above the trodden clod?"— vol. ii. p. 195 — 197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same picture... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 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 woe beyond death and the grave." A fit comment on this and other passages of similar import in his... | |
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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... 
