 Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster; death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call...  High School Question Book - Σελίδα 163των W. H. F. Henry - 1899 - 421 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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...action. Daniel Webster. THE BRAI\. — Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. 2. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot... | |
 | Joseph Chrisman Hutchison - 1875 - 324 σελίδες
...seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Lile winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key to the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves ; sleep caunot stop them ; madness only makes them go... | |
 | Joseph Chrisman Hutchison - 1875 - 332 σελίδες
...175 1. The Brain (p. 153, T9).— "Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key to the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac I go the wheels of thought ; our will canuot stop... | |
 | J. C. Hutchinson - 1875 - 324 σελίδες
...174,173 1. The Hralu (p. 153, 19).— "Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Lite winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key to the Augel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac I go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1876 - 458 σελίδες
...The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves ; sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes them... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1881 - 302 σελίδες
...two and thirty winds in the boiler of his boat. — Emerson. 2. The Angel of Life winds our brains up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of Resurrection. — Holmes. 3. I called the New World into existence to redress... | |
 | International portrait gallery - 1878 - 462 σελίδες
...ruminates upon the human brain : — " Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the...Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves ; sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes them... | |
 | George Stewart - 1878 - 272 σελίδες
...j.he Autocrat. Listen to this: — 'Our brains are seventy-four clocks, The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection. " 'Tic — tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1880 - 844 σελίδες
...Holmes says: " Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The angel of life -winds than up once for all, tlu-n closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection." Many of us drive this time-peice much faster than the Maker intended, and long before these years have... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 σελίδες
...BRAIN — FROM THE AUTOCRAT. — Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel' of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the...Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them; they cannot stop themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go... | |
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