Thomas Carlyle, Philosophic Thinker, Theologian, Historian, and PoetJ.Clarke & Company, 1875 - 502 pages |
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Thomas Carlyle, Philosophic Thinker, Theologian, Historian, and Poet Edwin Paxton Hood Affichage du livre entier - 1875 |
Thomas Carlyle, Philosophic Thinker, Theologian, Historian, and Poet Edwin Paxton Hood Affichage du livre entier - 1875 |
Thomas Carlyle, Philosophic Thinker, Theologian, Historian, and Poet Edwin Paxton Hood Affichage du livre entier - 1875 |
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Page 247 - Two men I honour, and no third. First the toilworn Craftsman, that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand ; crooked, coarse ; wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned,
Page 416 - musical life philosophy, sung according to its ability." And truly this is a very fair commentary upon the measures and metres, and sentiment, and philosophy of Byron. " And why should a living man complain —a man for the punishment of his sins ?
Page 228 - the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right, And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light. There is a terrible picture in the prophet Jeremiah, where the prophet is commanded to go with the
Page 490 - accredits that—says Yea to that. Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working ; the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge ; a thing to be argued of in schools; a thing floating in the clouds, in endless logic vortices, till we try it and fix it.
Page 155 - Have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey, to every man a damsel or two, to Siscra a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needle-work, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil
Page 155 - a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needle-work, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil ?" We wonder how a Hebrew would have chanted the story of those
Page 137 - billows of Time thou art not engulfed, but borne aloft into the azure of Eternity. Love not Pleasure, Love God, this is the Everlasting Yea wherein all contradiction is solved, wherein whoso walks and works it is well with him.
Page 227 - man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side. Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight:
Page 162 - a frog, to put his hook through the mouth, and out at the gills, and then, with a fine needle and silk, to sew on the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to the arming wire of the hook ; and, in so doing, to use him as though he loved him. Such was the
Page 60 - What have you deserved of the hands of Fortune, that she sends you to prison hither ? " Guil. Prison, my lord ! " Ham. Denmark 's a prison. " Ros. Then is the world one. "Ham. A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons—Denmark being one of the worst. "Ros. We think not so, my lord.