The Philosophy of CarlyleHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 140 pagina's |
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Pagina 52
... Frederick , to express the sorrowful conviction that the years spent on it had been wasted , as the more he had to do with Frederick the less heroic he found him . To another friend he lately said , in the same strain , " I never was ...
... Frederick , to express the sorrowful conviction that the years spent on it had been wasted , as the more he had to do with Frederick the less heroic he found him . To another friend he lately said , in the same strain , " I never was ...
Pagina 53
... Frederick and his feeling , for instance , for Cromwell . Frederick was certainly a genuine hero -- - - so at least I hold him , in spite of all that is said . He was in the main , I do believe , doing God's work in the world , if with ...
... Frederick and his feeling , for instance , for Cromwell . Frederick was certainly a genuine hero -- - - so at least I hold him , in spite of all that is said . He was in the main , I do believe , doing God's work in the world , if with ...
Pagina 54
... Frederick was , in truth , as Mr. Lowell says , " essentially hard , narrow , and selfish , ” with nothing spiritual or religious about him , noth- ing of Puritanism or Westminster Calvinism , no haunting thoughts of the infinities ...
... Frederick was , in truth , as Mr. Lowell says , " essentially hard , narrow , and selfish , ” with nothing spiritual or religious about him , noth- ing of Puritanism or Westminster Calvinism , no haunting thoughts of the infinities ...
Pagina 55
... Frederick , we find him , the principle of force and will worked completely out , and that in a cause essentially good , dissatisfied and sick of the workman . Set it down . Carlyle's hero that is the final verdict — must not only do ...
... Frederick , we find him , the principle of force and will worked completely out , and that in a cause essentially good , dissatisfied and sick of the workman . Set it down . Carlyle's hero that is the final verdict — must not only do ...
Pagina 58
... Frederick himself , Mr. John Morley well urges , " If the strength of Prussia now proves that he had a right to seize Silesia , and relieves us from inquir- ing further whether he had any such right or not , why then should not the ...
... Frederick himself , Mr. John Morley well urges , " If the strength of Prussia now proves that he had a right to seize Silesia , and relieves us from inquir- ing further whether he had any such right or not , why then should not the ...
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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...