Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Volumen1

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Scribner, 1884 - 809 páginas
 

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Página 79 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Página 96 - As it had deawed bene with timely raine ; Life and long health that gracious ointment gave, And deadly wounds could heale, and reare againe The sencelesse corse appointed for the grave.
Página 10 - He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.
Página 312 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Página 56 - Coleridge had on the anvil various Books, especially was about to write one grand Book On the Logos, which would help to bridge the chasm for us. So much appeared, however : Churches, though proved false (as you had imagined), were still true (as you...
Página 297 - I tread the common road into the great darkness, without any thought of fear and with very much of hope. Certainty, indeed, I have none.
Página 35 - The poor people seem to think a style can be put off or put on, not like a skin but like a coat. Is not a skin verily a product and close kinsfellow of all that lies under it, exact type of the nature of the beast, not to be plucked off without flaying and death ? The Public is an old woman.
Página 56 - What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, — that, in God's name, leave uncredited ; at your peril do not try believing that. No subtlest hocus-pocus of ' reason' versus
Página 215 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 17 - Such things the sun looks down upon in our fine times ; and I, for one, would rather have no hand in them. Yes, this is the eternal law of Nature for a man, my beneficent...

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