| Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1852 - 364 pagina’s
...superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written ' Biographies,' as Biographies are written ;— or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted cundle by which the Biographies could for the first time be read, and some human interpretation be... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 536 pagina’s
...superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written ' Biographies,' as Biographies are written; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait...Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent rumours — (in which state, ahis his usual one, he is worth nothing to anybody, except it be as a... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 pagina’s
...superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written ' Biographies,' as Biographies arc written; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as n small lighted candle by which the Biographies could for the first time be read, and some human interpretation... | |
| 1915 - 784 pagina’s
...superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written "Biographies," as Biographies are written; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait...and some human interpretation be made of them; the Biographled Personage no longer an empty impossible Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 pagina’s
...superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written ' Biographies,' as Biographies are written ; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait...Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent rumours — (in which state, alas his usual one, he is worth nothing to anybody, except it be as a... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 450 pagina’s
...superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written ' Biographies,' as Biographies are written ; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait...Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent rumours — (in which state, alas his usual one, he is worth nothing to anybody, except it be as a... | |
| 1875 - 820 pagina’s
...portrait superior in real instruction to half a dozen written biographies, as biographies are written ; or rather, let me say I have found that the portrait...read, and some human interpretation be made of them." — Carlyle, Collected Works, Vol. xi. pp. 241, 242. known, not to the theological doctrines, but to... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1879 - 190 pagina’s
...portrait superior in real instruction to half a dozen written biographies, as biographies are written ; or rather, let me say I have found that the portrait...read, and some human interpretation be made of them." — Oarlyle, Collected Works, Vol. xi. pp. 241, 242. nlism in Germany has been the absence, not from... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 498 pagina’s
...superior in real instruction to half a dozen written " Biographies," as Biographies are written ; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait...Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent rumors — (in which state, alas his usual one, he is worth nothing to anybody, except it be as a dried... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1884 - 420 pagina’s
...portrait superior in real instruction to half a dozen written biographies, ns biographies are written; or rather, let me say, I have found that the portrait...by which the biographies could for the first time he read, and some human interpretation be made of them." — Carlyle, Collicted Works, vol. xi. pp.... | |
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