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Pagina 32
It is true enough , too , that the world which appears to us takes its hue very
largely from our own condition . The sun does not shine to the man who has a
grumbling tooth , and when the nerves are tired we make mountains out of mole -
hills ...
It is true enough , too , that the world which appears to us takes its hue very
largely from our own condition . The sun does not shine to the man who has a
grumbling tooth , and when the nerves are tired we make mountains out of mole -
hills ...
Pagina 41
Be this as it may , his opinions about the present condition of the world are one
thing , and his philosophy is another . Temperament , culture , position ,
determine the relations and proportions which things assume to us . We
determine a man ...
Be this as it may , his opinions about the present condition of the world are one
thing , and his philosophy is another . Temperament , culture , position ,
determine the relations and proportions which things assume to us . We
determine a man ...
Pagina 51
In this connection , I would call attention to Mr . Conway ' s account of Carlyle ' s
awakening from his wild dream of the social condition of the South and the issues
of the Civil War — espe . cially the influence upon him of Emerson ' s letter ...
In this connection , I would call attention to Mr . Conway ' s account of Carlyle ' s
awakening from his wild dream of the social condition of the South and the issues
of the Civil War — espe . cially the influence upon him of Emerson ' s letter ...
Pagina 53
... and whose victory would have been calamity . If he was a despot , his
despotism was of the healthy sort , a despotism of brains , and his victories were
victories over rotten despotisms . His wars left the map of Europe in a condition
twice as ...
... and whose victory would have been calamity . If he was a despot , his
despotism was of the healthy sort , a despotism of brains , and his victories were
victories over rotten despotisms . His wars left the map of Europe in a condition
twice as ...
Pagina 64
The latter impression is inevitable in all who , like Goethe and Carlyle , make a
lofty acquiescence in the positive course of circumstances a prime condition at
once of wise endeavor and of genuine happiness . " With the philosophy of
England ...
The latter impression is inevitable in all who , like Goethe and Carlyle , make a
lofty acquiescence in the positive course of circumstances a prime condition at
once of wise endeavor and of genuine happiness . " With the philosophy of
England ...
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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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