Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending; till at length after infinite effort the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway... Thomas Carlyle: His Life, His Books, His Theories - Pagina 80door Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 219 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1853 - 604 pagina’s
...meet, and thirty stand confronting thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word ' fire' is given, and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk, useful workmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these... | |
| 1854 - 738 pagina’s
...juxtaposition ; and thirty stand pointing thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word " Fire ! " is given, and they blow the souls out of one another...brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury, and anew slied tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the devil... | |
| Walter White - 1860 - 488 pagina’s
...juxtaposition ; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word ' Fire ! ' is given ; and they blow the souls out of one another...sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil... | |
| John Brown - 1861 - 526 pagina’s
...is given, and they blow the souls out of one another ; and in place of sixty brisk, useful workmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury,...is, not the smallest ; they lived far enough apart, nay, in so wide a world, there was even unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness between... | |
| John Brown - 1861 - 548 pagina’s
...meet, and thirty stand confronting thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word ' fire' is given, and they blow the souls out of one another ; and in place of sixty brisk, useful workmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these... | |
| 1861 - 858 pagina’s
...fronting thirty, each with a gun in his hand; straightway the word 'fire !' is given and they blow 'he souls out of one another, and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmci>, the world has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury, and men shed tears for. H*d these... | |
| London metrop. tabernacle - 1870 - 598 pagina’s
...Carlyle pithily puts it, "each with a gun in his hand," meet face to face. " Straightway the word ' Fire' is given, and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of 'so many' brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has so many dead carcasses, which it must bury and shed... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 138 pagina’s
...juxta-position; and Thiny stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word 'Fire!' is given; and they blow the souls out of one another;...and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel 1 Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers;... | |
| 1880 - 630 pagina’s
...juxtaposition ; and thirty stands fronting thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word ' Fire ! ' is given : and they blow the souls out of one another...brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. " Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 326 pagina’s
...; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun ' in his hand. Straightway the word " Fire !" is given : and ' they blow the souls out of one another...sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead car' casses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had ' these men any quarrel ? Busy as the... | |
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