Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 380 pages |
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... between the statue and the man ? The last appears a mere machine as well as the first ; more nicely put to- gether indeed ; more exquisitely contrived ; with a more wonderful apparatus in the senses , and leading therefore 60 TREMAINE .
... between the statue and the man ? The last appears a mere machine as well as the first ; more nicely put to- gether indeed ; more exquisitely contrived ; with a more wonderful apparatus in the senses , and leading therefore 60 TREMAINE .
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... wonderful effect , for a given time , of the nice and extraordinary adap- tation of parts in the wonderful machine ; in the same manner , though not in the same degree , and by no means in the same manner to be discovered , as the ...
... wonderful effect , for a given time , of the nice and extraordinary adap- tation of parts in the wonderful machine ; in the same manner , though not in the same degree , and by no means in the same manner to be discovered , as the ...
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... wonderful concert of sounds it is made to produce , without a player , or some agent to give it a first impetus , and I will yield to the power of the specious words you have used ; - but not till then . ' Tremaine paused much upon this ...
... wonderful concert of sounds it is made to produce , without a player , or some agent to give it a first impetus , and I will yield to the power of the specious words you have used ; - but not till then . ' Tremaine paused much upon this ...
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... wonderful perfection by succeeding philosophers . " " I know not your aim , exactly , " said Tremaine . " What I mean is , must not all these operations of matter be , like other operations , mechanical ? " " That has been my fear and ...
... wonderful perfection by succeeding philosophers . " " I know not your aim , exactly , " said Tremaine . " What I mean is , must not all these operations of matter be , like other operations , mechanical ? " " That has been my fear and ...
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... planned or made it self . " Tremaine again faltered . " I need not ask you , " pursued Evelyn , " whether you think this awful , this wonderful Author of na ture , is himself corporeal ? " " I suppose not . " " Suppose not ! 90 TREMAINE .
... planned or made it self . " Tremaine again faltered . " I need not ask you , " pursued Evelyn , " whether you think this awful , this wonderful Author of na ture , is himself corporeal ? " " I suppose not . " " Suppose not ! 90 TREMAINE .
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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.