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The Foreign Review, and Continental Miscellany - Page 435
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...are yet held together, and like stones in the channel of a torrent, by their very multitude and mutal collision, are made to move with some regularity,...strange, an unexampled destiny; not as other men, he is "iriVA them, not o/'them." There is misery here ; nay, as Goethe has elsewhere wisely remarked, the...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...stones in the channel of a torrent, by their very multitude and mutal collision, are made to move^vith some regularity, — he is still but a slave; the...solitary. He sees the vulgar of mankind happy; but Jiappy only in their baseness. Himself he feels to be peculiar ; the victim of a strange, an unexampled...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...are yet held together, and like stones in the channel of a torrent, by their very multitude and mutal collision, are made to move with some regularity,...— he is still but a slave; the slave of impulses, which'are stronger, not truer or better, and the more unsafe that they are solitary. He sees the vulgar...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 570 pages
...yet held together, arid like stones in the channel of a torrent, by their very multitude and mutal collision, are made to move with some regularity,...is still but a slave; the slave of impulses, which are'stronger, not truer or better, and the more unsafe that they are solitary. He sees the vulgar of...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle - Scottish essays - 1859 - 620 pages
...are yet held together, and like stones in the channel of a torrent, by their very multitude and mutal S ' Zh(n ȱ t -A> Ǎ { D \ћ 8` ! Ni D 6 Zp 3 ... =j/ @` f W7ЄKׂ r !P h )S _ - "j kZ ] 7 : 1 jF#4 nren, he is " with them, not of them." There is misery here ; nay, as Goethe has elsewhere wisely remarked,...
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The Carlyle Anthology

Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...men, without light to guide him on a better way. No longer restricted by the sympathies, the com mon interests and common persuasions by which the mass...he feels to be peculiar ; the victim of a strange, and unexampled destiny; not as other men, he is 'with them, not of them.' There is misery here, nay,...
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The Carlyle Anthology: Selected and Arranged

Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...men, without light to guide him on a better way. No longer restricted by the sympathies, the com mon interests and common persuasions by which the mass...he feels to be peculiar ; the victim of a strange, and unexampled destiny; not as other men, he is 'with them, not of them. ' There is misery here, nay,...
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Works, Volume 1

Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...together, and like stones in the channel of a torrent, by their very multitude and mutual collisions are made to move with some regularity,— he is still...truer or better, and the more unsafe that they are So it is with that soul who had built herself a lordly pleasure-house wherein to dwell alone. For three...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 550 pages
...silence and despair. What solace remains ? Virtue once promised to be her own reward ; but because s>iie does not pay him in the current coin of worldly enjoyment,...strange, an unexampled destiny ; not as other men, he is ' zvith them, not of them.' There is misery here, nay, as Goethe has elsewhere wisely remarked, the...
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Polonius: a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1901 - 160 pages
...collisions are made to XLIV WORLD'S PULSE XLV SELFISOLATION XLVI " NETHER BARREL BETTER HERRING >: move with some regularity, — he is still but a slave...better, and the more unsafe that they are solitary. Carlyle. So it is with that soul who had built herself a lordly pleasure-house wherein to dwell alone....
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