Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 380 pages |
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Page 39
... reasons . Your silence alone I shall too well comprehend , and no answer will be the most decisive one I can receive . " The consequences of all this are known , and it forms only one more proof , though a very special one , offe ' What ...
... reasons . Your silence alone I shall too well comprehend , and no answer will be the most decisive one I can receive . " The consequences of all this are known , and it forms only one more proof , though a very special one , offe ' What ...
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... visit it was always opposed , on the ground that she was too weak to mount the hill ; a reason , alas ! but too well founded , but on that very account , a rea- J son also for Evelyn's not leaving her so much alone 40 TREMAINE .
... visit it was always opposed , on the ground that she was too weak to mount the hill ; a reason , alas ! but too well founded , but on that very account , a rea- J son also for Evelyn's not leaving her so much alone 40 TREMAINE .
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... reason to prevail . On the second , having resolved to go to Orleans to provide for their various little wants , he insisted upon his friend's doing the honours of the city , with which he was well acquainted . Behold them , then ...
... reason to prevail . On the second , having resolved to go to Orleans to provide for their various little wants , he insisted upon his friend's doing the honours of the city , with which he was well acquainted . Behold them , then ...
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... reason - this feeling has returned , and I own deliciously . It has often expanded my very heart . " " It is worth a universe , " cried Evelyn , " and transcends all the philosophising and all the systems that ever drove poor reason mad ...
... reason - this feeling has returned , and I own deliciously . It has often expanded my very heart . " " It is worth a universe , " cried Evelyn , " and transcends all the philosophising and all the systems that ever drove poor reason mad ...
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... reason , nay , that reason does not even contradict many of them , and I can feel no obstinacy on reve- lation itself . " Evelyn could by no means suppress his joy . He shook hands with Tremaine again and again , and . TREMAINE . 53.
... reason , nay , that reason does not even contradict many of them , and I can feel no obstinacy on reve- lation itself . " Evelyn could by no means suppress his joy . He shook hands with Tremaine again and again , and . TREMAINE . 53.
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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 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 335 - 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. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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 283 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off...
Page 373 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 55 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Page 283 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 271 - Are many lesser Faculties that serve Reason as chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful Senses represent, She forms Imaginations, Aery shapes, Which Reason joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private Cell when Nature rests.
Page 320 - Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour, when, stealing from the noise Of care and envy, sweet remembrance soothes With Virtue's kindest looks his aching breast, And turns his tears to rapture.
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.