Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Volumen2

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884
 

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Página 457 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 258 - 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 371 - 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 270 - Rooms, to the complete upsetting of my evening habitudes and spiritual composure. Dickens does do it capitally, such as it is ; acts better than any Macready in the world ; a whole tragic, comic, heroic theatre visible, performing under one hat, and keeping us laughing — in a sorry way, some of us thought — the whole night.
Página 34 - ... increase that of attainable. All knowledge and device and effort ought to be directed thither and thither only : Pig science, Pig enthusiasm and Devotion have this one aim. It is the Whole Duty of Pigs. ' 5. Pig Poetry ought to consist of universal recognition of the excellence of Pig's-wash and ground barley, and the felicity of Pigs whose trough is in order, and who have had enough : Hrumph ! ' 6. The Pig knows the weather ; he ought to look out what kind of weather it will be. '7. " Who made...
Página 345 - To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er.
Página 260 - Thou whose Son did, as on this day, rise again from the dead, grant us grace to rise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness.
Página 34 - Pig-nature called indignation, revenge, etc., which, if one Pig provoke another, comes out in a more or less destructive manner : hence laws are necessary, amazing quantities of laws. For quarrelling is attended with loss of blood, of life, at any rate with frightful effusion of the general stock of Hog's-wash, and ruin (temporary ruin) to large sections of the universal Swine's-trough : wherefore let justice be observed, that so quarrelling be avoided. ' 9. " What is justice ? " Your own share of...
Página 432 - He is the only man I almost never spoke of except with contempt ; and if there is anything of scurrility anywhere chargeable against me, he is the subject of it ; and yet see, here he comes with a pan of hot coals for my guilty head.
Página 70 - ... to Atheism and Materialism, full of mere sordid misbeliefs, mispursuits and misresults. All Science had become mechanical ; the science not of men, but of a kind of human beavers. Churches themselves had died away into a godless mechanical condition ; and stood there as mere...

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