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" And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything ; ' the eye seeing in all things ' what it brought with it the faculty of seeing ' ! To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Raphael,... "
The House of Cromwell and the Story of Dunkirk - Page 304
by James Waylen - 1880 - 389 pages
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WORKS.

Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...likeness, not the false superficial one, of the thing he has got to work in. And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything ; ' the...all things what it brought with it the faculty of see' ing' ! To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainlj us to the jaundiced they are yellow....
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1841 - 408 pages
...one, of the thing he has got to work in. And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we gel of anything; ' the eye seeing in all things what it...Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face...
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A System of English Grammar

Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...the future predominate over the present, exalts us in the scale of thinking beings. — Johnson. 3. To the mean eye, all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. — Carlyle. 4. When the Spaniards settled in South America, they had no intention of giving to the...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures

Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...likeness, not the false superficial one, of the thing he has got to work in. And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything; ' the...Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face...
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Sartor Resartus (1831): Lectures on Heroes (1840)

Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...likeness, not the false superficial one, of the thing he has got to work in. And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything ; ' the...Painters tell us, is the best of all Portraitpainters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face...
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The romance of a dull life, by the author of 'Morning clouds'.

Anne Judith Penny - 1861 - 450 pages
...was at Clayfield Lodge the disparaging tone usual among minds of small calibre. Carlyle says truly, " To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow;" and thus, without any unkind intention, there was, in all the Podmore notions, an abating, discolouring...
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Three Great Teachers of Our Time: Being an Attempt to Deduce the Spirit and ...

Alexander Hay Japp - English literature - 1865 - 284 pages
...intellect altogether expresses itself in discerning what an object is ? .... And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything; ' the...things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced eye they are all yellow." Of course Carlyle knows as well as any one that the loftiest of our literary...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...likeness, not the false, superficial one, of the thing he has got to work in. And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything ; " the...Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 780 pages
...likeness, not the false, superficial one, of the thing he has got to work in. And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything ; "the...are yellow. Raphael, the painters tell us, is the Iwst of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object....
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The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...never-resting, worn as tolta; and how, even in the Pit of woe, he was, would full surely die; "that of anything; "the eye seeing in all things what it...painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gifted eye can exhaust the significance of any object. In the commonest human face...
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