 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 pages
...accusation. ' That colossal, adamantine spirit standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among the degenerate men ; fit to have been the teacher of the...discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe! So robust an intellect, a soul so calm, so lofty, massive and immovable, has not mingled in philosophical... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1881 - 158 pages
...needs go into any portrait of himself, — " the colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among degenerate men ; fit to have...discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe ! So robust an intellect, a soul so calm, so lofty, massive, and immovable, has not mingled in philosophical... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...mysticism of Fichte might astonish us. The cold, colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among degenerate men : fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have ditcoursed of Beauty and Virtue in the groves of Academe 1 Carlyle. Stoke Park. The seat of Lord Taunton,... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 602 pages
...place the -disciples of Zeno derived their name of Stoics. [Also called the like a Cato Major amonp degenerate men: fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and lo have discoursed ol Beauty ami Virtue m the groves of Academe ! Carlyle. Stoke Park. The seat of... | |
 | Alfred Domett - 1883 - 372 pages
...the age. " The cold, colossal, adamantine Spirit, standing erect and clear like a Cato Major among men ; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and...discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe, etc. " — Carlyle's Essays and Miscellanies. 15. " Healthier dreams." " Exemption from being born... | |
 | Alfred Domett - 1883 - 364 pages
...the age. " The cold, colossal, adamantine Spirit, standing erect and clear like a Cato Major among men ; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and...discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe, etc."—Carlyle's Essays and Miscellanies. 15. " Healthier dreams." " Exemption from being born again,... | |
 | Alfred Domett - 1883 - 378 pages
...of the age. "The cold, colossal, adamantine Spirit, standing erect and clear like a Cato Major among men ; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and...discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe, etc."—Carlyle's Essays and Miscellanies. 15. " Healthier dreams." " Exemption from being born again,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1884 - 676 pages
...Eleazar, and to dare and suffer all that they suffered and dared — fit, as he once said of Fichte, ' to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have...discoursed of Beauty and Virtue in the groves of Academe.' With a capacity to grasp physical principles which his friend Goethe did not possess, and which even... | |
 | Johann Gottlieb Fichte - 1889 - 500 pages
...our own country's brightest ornaments as a " colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among degenerate men ; fit to have...discoursed of beauty and virtue in the groves of Academe." But the sublimity of U his intellect casts no shade on the soft current of his ' affections, which... | |
 | Johann Gottlieb Fichte - 1889 - 544 pages
...mysticism of Fichte might astonish us. The cold, colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among degenerate men ; fit to have...teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of Beauty aad Virtue in the groves of Academe ! Our reader haB seen some words of Fichte's : are these like words... | |
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The cold, colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among degenerate men ; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of Beauty and Virtue in the groves of Academe... 
