Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 380 pages |
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... . That lovely flower again hung its head , under the very hand that endeavoured , with unremitting affec- tion , to prop and protect it . Health seemed or ever gone ; the little medical aid that had been .TREMAINE . 15.
... . That lovely flower again hung its head , under the very hand that endeavoured , with unremitting affec- tion , to prop and protect it . Health seemed or ever gone ; the little medical aid that had been .TREMAINE . 15.
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... tion ; for no picture of mine can do it justice . “ Gracious Heavens ! " at last exclaimed Tre- maine ; " what then has been my fate ! I have been driven into banishment by her own command ; com- pelled by that command to forego , to ...
... tion ; for no picture of mine can do it justice . “ Gracious Heavens ! " at last exclaimed Tre- maine ; " what then has been my fate ! I have been driven into banishment by her own command ; com- pelled by that command to forego , to ...
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... tion of surely the greatest intellect that ever belonged to a mortal , and reflect that that intellect only made him more fixed and firm in his belief ; I cannot do this without reflecting more deeply on the case of those who are tossed ...
... tion of surely the greatest intellect that ever belonged to a mortal , and reflect that that intellect only made him more fixed and firm in his belief ; I cannot do this without reflecting more deeply on the case of those who are tossed ...
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... this part of our subject , " answered Evelyn . " I wish to discuss the religion of nature , before that of revela- tion ; nor do I at all mean to cicatrize your doubts with mere authority , and leave you floating in un- 58 TREMAINE .
... this part of our subject , " answered Evelyn . " I wish to discuss the religion of nature , before that of revela- tion ; nor do I at all mean to cicatrize your doubts with mere authority , and leave you floating in un- 58 TREMAINE .
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... caused so much alterca- tion on both sides- ' Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor ? " * " Let us take you upon your own supposition , " It was fear that first produced Gods . answered Evelyn , " and see , practically , to TREMAINE . 63.
... caused so much alterca- tion on both sides- ' Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor ? " * " Let us take you upon your own supposition , " It was fear that first produced Gods . answered Evelyn , " and see , practically , to TREMAINE . 63.
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Almighty answered Evelyn answered Tremaine argument asked Evelyn asked Tremaine beautiful believe better Bolingbroke brain brute called cause certainly CHAP chateau Cicero confess consequence continued Evelyn continued Tremaine creation creature cried Evelyn cried Tremaine crime dear death Deity demonstration difficulty divine Doctor doubt Epicurus Evelyn Hall evil exclaimed existence father fear feeling free-will Georgina give happiness heart Heaven hope horror immortal Jules laws least Lisette Lucretius maine matter mean ment merely mind moral motion murder nature never object observed Evelyn observed Tremaine opinion Orleans pause perhaps perpetual philosopher physics Place d'Orleans pleasure proof prove Providence pursued Evelyn question reason rejoined religion replied Evelyn replied Tremaine returned Evelyn returned Tremaine scepticism Scopas seemed Sennacherib sense SHAKSPEARE soul spirit suppose supposition sure tell thing thought tion Tremaine allowed true truth Voltaire whole wish wonderful
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Page 290 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence ; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Page 289 - Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 335 - Imagine howling ! —'tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 203 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Page 257 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Page 49 - Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit? or whither shall I go then from thy presence ? If I climb up into heaven, thou art there ; if I go down to hell, thou art there also.
Page 280 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it, by degrees, to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 289 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence : there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.
Page 281 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 271 - All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.