Thomas Carlyle: The Man and His Books : Illustrated by Personal Reminiscences, Table-talk, and Anecdotes of Himself and His FriendsM. Japp and Company, 1881 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... tion of them given by one neighbour ; and the sentence gathers up in a few words the most of the opinion that has been handed down by their contemporaries to the present generation , and which is found floating to - day all over ...
... tion of them given by one neighbour ; and the sentence gathers up in a few words the most of the opinion that has been handed down by their contemporaries to the present generation , and which is found floating to - day all over ...
Pagina 27
... tion , which numbers about 900 , is exclusively agricultural . The older one - storeyed cottages were for the most part built by Carlyle's father and uncle ; and as they are regu- larly whitewashed once a year , on the approach of the ...
... tion , which numbers about 900 , is exclusively agricultural . The older one - storeyed cottages were for the most part built by Carlyle's father and uncle ; and as they are regu- larly whitewashed once a year , on the approach of the ...
Pagina 36
... tion of " casuals . " name . Carlyle was only in his eighth year when he was trans- ferred to the Academy , or Grammar School , of Annan , where his father had once been a pupil , and upon which he bestows the significant name of " the ...
... tion of " casuals . " name . Carlyle was only in his eighth year when he was trans- ferred to the Academy , or Grammar School , of Annan , where his father had once been a pupil , and upon which he bestows the significant name of " the ...
Pagina 37
... great industry , but that his grammar and construc- tion were in a chaotic state . After three months ' drill , however , little Thomas had succeeded in grasping the intricacies of both , and could translate Virgil and Horace.
... great industry , but that his grammar and construc- tion were in a chaotic state . After three months ' drill , however , little Thomas had succeeded in grasping the intricacies of both , and could translate Virgil and Horace.
Pagina 45
... tion rises in me that perhaps there was not in the British Island a more completely genuine , pious - minded , diligent , and faithful man . Altogether original too , peculiar to Scotland , and , so far as I can guess , unique even ...
... tion rises in me that perhaps there was not in the British Island a more completely genuine , pious - minded , diligent , and faithful man . Altogether original too , peculiar to Scotland , and , so far as I can guess , unique even ...
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Thomas Carlyle: The Man and His Books : Illustrated by Personal ... William Howie Wylie Volledige weergave - 1909 |
Thomas Carlyle: The Man and His Books : Illustrated by Personal ... William Howie Wylie Volledige weergave - 1881 |
Thomas Carlyle: The Man and His Books : Illustrated by Personal ... William Howie Wylie Volledige weergave - 1881 |
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Pagina 35 - The Hinterschlag professors knew syntax enough ; and of the human soul thus much : that it had a faculty called memory, and could be acted on through the muscular integument by appliance of birch rods.
Pagina 141 - I found the house amid desolate heathery hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hillfarm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
Pagina 178 - It has been one of my hopes to add something to the popular and picturesque means of understanding that terrible time, though no one can hope to add anything to the philosophy of Mr. CARLYLE'S wonderful book.
Pagina 196 - Mazzini for a series of years ; and whatever I may think of his practical insight and skill in worldly affairs, I can with great freedom testify to all men that he, if I have ever seen one such, is a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity, and nobleness of mind, one of those rare men, numerable unfortunately but as units in this world, who are worthy to be called martyr souls ; who in silence, piously in their daily life, understand and practise what is meant by that.
Pagina 65 - I have my health to recover. And then once more I shall venture my bark upon the waters of this wide realm, and if she cannot weather it, I shall steer west, and try the waters of another world.
Pagina 66 - Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry, with Notes. Translated from the French of AM Legendre. Edited by David Brewster, LL.D. With Notes and Additions, and an Introductory Chapter on Proportion.
Pagina 175 - He seems, to me, quite isolated, — lonely as the desert, — yet never was a man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match his mood. He finds them, but only in the past. He sings, rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up, near the beginning, some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting needle, he catches up the stitches, if he has chanced,...
Pagina 231 - Christ died on the tree ; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together. Time has only a relative existence.
Pagina 182 - Symbol of Eternity imprisoned into 'Time!' it is not thy works, which are all mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the Spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
Pagina 197 - English post-office be, as we all fancied they -were, respected as things sacred; that opening of men's letters, a practice near of kin to picking men's pockets, and to other still viler and far fataler forms of scoundrelism. be not resorted to in England, except in cases of the very last extremity. When some new gunpowder plot may be in the wind, some doubledyed high treason, or imminent national wreck not avoidable otherwise, then let us open letters — not till then.