Tremaine: Or, The Man of Refinement, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 380 pages |
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... matter to subside a little , before I proceed with my story . A turn or two in the gallery brought things a little round ; and we may fancy the friends stopping , as they frequently did , to survey , perhaps to criticise , each other ...
... matter to subside a little , before I proceed with my story . A turn or two in the gallery brought things a little round ; and we may fancy the friends stopping , as they frequently did , to survey , perhaps to criticise , each other ...
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... matter , even as this divine work of Phidias was , ) , what difference , when they come , to be , destroyed by death , or the ? hand of the barbarian , seems there to be , between the statue and the man ? The last appears a mere machine ...
... matter , even as this divine work of Phidias was , ) , what difference , when they come , to be , destroyed by death , or the ? hand of the barbarian , seems there to be , between the statue and the man ? The last appears a mere machine ...
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... matter . I ask the end and finish of all , when these senses decay , and the life - blood is out ? The machine of the man , like the machine of the statue , equally falls to pieces , and is trodden into dust . Hence , with Lucretius ...
... matter . I ask the end and finish of all , when these senses decay , and the life - blood is out ? The machine of the man , like the machine of the statue , equally falls to pieces , and is trodden into dust . Hence , with Lucretius ...
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... matter exceedingly well ; Voltaire himself would have been obliged to you . You beat him all to nothing with his bellows and its clapper , which , he says , is its soul . " 2. " Whatever I may once have thought , I have long felt that ...
... matter exceedingly well ; Voltaire himself would have been obliged to you . You beat him all to nothing with his bellows and its clapper , which , he says , is its soul . " 2. " Whatever I may once have thought , I have long felt that ...
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... matter at rest , as - if the ship had never come , or never would come again ? " " I should not , " replied Tremaine . You will observe , " pursued Evelyn , " I say nothing of the influence of this periodical visit upon conduct , but ...
... matter at rest , as - if the ship had never come , or never would come again ? " " I should not , " replied Tremaine . You will observe , " pursued Evelyn , " I say nothing of the influence of this periodical visit upon conduct , but ...
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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 effect Epicurus Evelyn Hall evil exclaimed existence father fear feeling free-will Georgina give happiness heart Heaven hope horror immortal Jules laws least less 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 scepticism Scopas seemed Sennacherib sense SHAKSPEARE soul spirit suppose supposition sure tell thing thought tion Tremaine allowed true truth Voltaire whole wish wonder