1 You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not.
2 The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true.
3 By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me, and I continued my journey towards Geneva.
4 The storm, as is often the case in Switzerland, appeared at once in various parts of the heavens.
5 I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.
6 They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe.
7 These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.
8 It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased.
9 It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
10 Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
11 The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgement from heaven to chastise her partiality.
12 Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.
13 Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.
14 I swear," he cried, "by the sun, and by the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again.
15 She was thinner and had lost much of that heavenly vivacity that had before charmed me; but her gentleness and soft looks of compassion made her a more fit companion for one blasted and miserable as I was.
16 My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.
17 It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
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