 I incline to think it the poor best place that could have been selected for the ripening into fixity and composure of anything useful which there may have been in me against the years that were coming.  v. 2, 1847-1881 - Pagina 56geredigeerd door - 1881Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 430 pagina’s
...been happy, always diligent, and to which, towards the end of his life, he looked back as perhaps " the poor best place that could have been selected...fixity and composure of "anything useful which there" might "have been in" him "against the years that were coming." His goal this time was London, where,... | |
 | 1881 - 610 pagina’s
...thanks very mainly to her, and her faculties and magnanimities, without whom it had not been possible. I incline to think it the poor best place that could...never since found in the world a place so favourable. And we were driven and pushed into it, as if by necessity, and its beneficent though ugly little shocks... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - 360 pagina’s
...thanks very mainly to her, and her faculties and magnanimities, without whom it had not been possible. I incline to think it the poor best place that could...never since found in the world a place so favourable. And we were driven and pushed into it, as if by necessity, and its beneficent though ugly little shocks... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - 394 pagina’s
...thanks very mainly to her, and her faculties and magnanimities, without whom it had not been possible. I incline to think it the poor best place that could...in, I have never since found in the world a place so favorable. And we were driven and pushed into it, as if by necessity, and its beneficent though ugly... | |
 | 1881 - 606 pagina’s
...thanks very mainly to her, and her faculties and magnanimities, without whom it had not been possible. I incline to think it the poor best place that could...fixity and composure of anything useful which there may ha?e been in me against the years that were coming. And it is certain that for living in and thinking... | |
 | Strait gate - 1881 - 248 pagina’s
...before the date of this letter, wrote for the Edinburgh his world1 " It is certain that for living and thinking in, I have never since found in the world a place so favourable. . . . How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity... | |
 | John MacGavin Sloan - 1904 - 332 pagina’s
...the work J. Patrick.] CRAIGENPUTTOCK. [Edinburgh. " I incline to think it the poor best place thnt could have been selected for the ripening into fixity...have been in me against the years that were coming." — Carlyle in Remin1scences, 1867. of preparation, his mother there from Scotsbrig, sparing no effort... | |
 | James Wood - 1920 - 730 pagina’s
...Sartor ' was written. " It Is certain," Carlyle says of it long after, " that for living and thinking iu I have never since found in the world a place so favourable. . . . How bleased," he exclaims, "might poor mortals be in the straitcst circum9 OBAS stances if their... | |
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