 Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find...  The School World - Page 1951901Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools : without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark, that this Definition... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...soft paste ; ' seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his un' wearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without ' Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is ' all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Industrial arts - 1887 - 644 pages
...were soft paste. Seas are his smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds : nowhere do you find him without tools. Without tools he is nothing ; with tools he is all." When the history of this century is written, tools and the tool maker will not pass unnoticed. When... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 694 pages
...were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds. No where do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."* Necessity is said to be the mother of invention ; it never would have been sufficient in itself to... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 326 pages
...were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds. No where do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."* Necessity is said to be the mother of invention; it never would have been sufficient in itself to have... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, ' winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him ' without Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, ' winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him ' without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire ' his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools ; ' without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark, that this Definition... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Industrial arts - 1864 - 458 pages
...were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unvarying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools : without tools he is nothing ; with tools he is all." His very first contrivances to support life were tools of the simplest and rudest construction; and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 138 pages
...were soft paste; seas aie his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' 7 Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition... | |
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