 | 1840 - 544 pages
...thinga, dwell, for the last ten years, in all thinking heads in England ; and are hovering, of late, even on the tongues of not a few. With a word on each...empire of Necessity and Night ; they have accomplished euch a conquest and conquests : and to this man it is all as if it had not been. The four and twenty... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 128 pages
...its eyes extinct so that it sees not ! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant it has come in vain. For six thousand years the Sons of Adam,...and to this man it is all as if it had not been. The four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Runic enigmas to him. He passes by on the other side... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...its eyes extinct so that it sees not! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant it has come in vain. For six thousand years the sons of Adam,...accomplished such a conquest and conquests : and to tfiis man it is all as if it had not been. The four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Runic... | |
 | 1841 - 586 pages
...extinct ao that it sees not ! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant it has come ui vain. For six thousand years the Sons of Adam, in...discovering ; in mysterious infinite indissoluble communion, war. ring, a little band of brothers, against the great black empire of Necessity and Night ; they... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 pages
...its eyes extinct so that it sees not! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant it has come in vain. For six thousand years the Sons of Adam,...and to this man it is all as if it had not been. The four-and-twenty letters of the Alphabet are still Runic enigmas to him. He passes by on the other side... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 484 pages
...eyes extinct, so that it sees not ! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant, it has come in vain. For six thousand years, the sons of Adam, in sleepless efti>rt, have been devising, doing, discovering, in mysterious, infinite indissoluble communion, warring,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 906 pages
...eyes extinct, so that it sees not! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant, it has come in vain. For six thousand years, the sons of...conquest and conquests ; and to this man it is all as if ft had not been. The four and twenty letter» of the alphabet are still Runic enigmas to him. lie passes... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1864 - 874 pages
...eyes extinct, so that it sees not ! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasam, it has come in vain. For six thousand years, the sons of...brothers, against the great black empire of necessity and niglit ; they have accomplished such a conquest and conquests ; and to lliis man it is till as if ft... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 458 pages
...its eyes extinct so that it sees not ! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant it has come in vain. For six thousand years the Sons of Adam,...and to this man it is all as if it had not been. The four-andtwenty letters of the Alphabet are still Runic enigmas to him. He passes by on the other side... | |
 | 1874 - 702 pages
...eyes extinct, so that it sees not! Light has come into the world, but to this poor peasant, it has come in vain. For six thousand years, the sons of...they have accomplished such a conquest and conquests; aud to this man it is all as if it had not been. The four and twenty letters of the alphabet are still... | |
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... the inhabitants living all mutilated in their limbs, each strong man with his right arm lamed? How much crueller to find the strong soul, with its eyes still sealed, its eyes extinct so that it sees not! Light has come into the world, but to this... 
