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Pagina 1
A great man and thinker is not so common a phenomenon nowadays that we can
quite afford to put him off and call him done with , when we have told the stories
about him . For the most part , stories seem to be the chief thing cared for ...
A great man and thinker is not so common a phenomenon nowadays that we can
quite afford to put him off and call him done with , when we have told the stories
about him . For the most part , stories seem to be the chief thing cared for ...
Pagina 3
... his wife , upon the very morrow of his Edinburgh triumph , to which they both
attributed so exaggerated an importance as an authentic public seal to the virtue
of their common struggle . “ He was taken to Mentone , of all places in the world ...
... his wife , upon the very morrow of his Edinburgh triumph , to which they both
attributed so exaggerated an importance as an authentic public seal to the virtue
of their common struggle . “ He was taken to Mentone , of all places in the world ...
Pagina 5
but which never should have been produced to the common eye . " He who , in
knowledge of the history and nature of these Reminiscences can laugh at the old
Carlyle for his idolatrous praises of his “ Jeannie , ” even his exaltation of her ...
but which never should have been produced to the common eye . " He who , in
knowledge of the history and nature of these Reminiscences can laugh at the old
Carlyle for his idolatrous praises of his “ Jeannie , ” even his exaltation of her ...
Pagina 16
Men forget that much which they criticise was of the very quality of his genius ,
without which he had not been at all . Naturally enough we are more sensitive to
the faults and incompletenesses of the genius than those of the common man ;
but ...
Men forget that much which they criticise was of the very quality of his genius ,
without which he had not been at all . Naturally enough we are more sensitive to
the faults and incompletenesses of the genius than those of the common man ;
but ...
Pagina 20
This essay demands special study from those who would intimately understand
Carlyle , — for with no man of whom he writes did he have more points in
common , both in character and in career , than with Johnson . It deserves , too ,
the ...
This essay demands special study from those who would intimately understand
Carlyle , — for with no man of whom he writes did he have more points in
common , both in character and in career , than with Johnson . It deserves , too ,
the ...
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American appeared become beginning believe better bring Carlyle Carlyle's cause chiefly Church common condition consciousness consider course criticism deep despotism divine duty earth Emerson England English essay eternal evil existed eyes faith feeling force Frederick freedom French genius German GERMAN IDEALISM give Goethe half heart human idea ideal important justice kind less living man's material matter means mechanical mind moral nature never pass Past perhaps pessimism philosophy political poor possible practical present principle prophet prove question reason recognition reform religion result Sartor says seems sense side sincere society sort soul speak spirit standing strong tell thing thought tion true truth unconscious universe views whole wise write written wrong wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 124 - The condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition.
Pagina 79 - 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!
Pagina 122 - ... shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Pagina 75 - The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is partially known to us: but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger Cycle of causes our little Epicycle revolves on?
Pagina 74 - Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grassblade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.
Pagina 74 - All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is not there on its own account ; strictly taken, is not there at all; matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea, and body it forth.
Pagina 81 - On the roaring 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.
Pagina 75 - To the Minnow every cranny and pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native Creek may have become familiar: but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides...
Pagina 124 - Touch it not, ye workers, ye master-workers, ye master-idlers; none of you can touch it, no man of you shall be the better for it; this is enchanted fruit!
Pagina 81 - I see a glimpse of it !' cries he elsewhere : ' there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness : he can do 'without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was ' it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, ' the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered ; ' bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the God...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Philosophy of Carlyle |
| Auteur | Edwin Doak Mead |
| Uitgever | Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Harvard University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 15 aug 2007 |
| Lengte | 140 pagina's |
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