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... A Treatise on Bookkeeping and Stenography ... - Page 22by International Correspondence Schools - 1899Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...relief. It is like taking the cat in your lap after holding a squirrel." " Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection." If the following is a true description of the matter, we are disposed to be thankful that the gods... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...thinner, until at last the veil of flesh is threadbare, and, still singing, they drop it and pass onward. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...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... | |
| 1860 - 908 pages
...upon those whose icy natures are doomed to eternal congealment, — Cragon. SEVENTY- YEAR CLOCKS. OUB brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurreetion. Tic-tac ! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...caught a cold, was laid up with a lumbago, and had time to think over this whole matter. THE BRAIN. Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life...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... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 848 pages
...quotations by a short specimen taken from his most amusing book, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table : — " Our brains are seventy-year clocks ; the angel of...case, and gives the key into the hand of the angel of resurrection. " Tic-tac, tic-tac, go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot... | |
| Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 pages
...picturesque pas>ag'ï in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast-table " illustrates this : " Our brains aro seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them...key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them; they cannot «top themselves;... | |
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