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... new , all born at least with hearts of flesh and not of stone ; -and heavy Misery itself , once heavy enough , will prove didactic ! - CHAPTER III . MANCHESTER INSURRECTION . BLUSTEROWSKI , Colacorde , THE SPHINX . 13.
... new , all born at least with hearts of flesh and not of stone ; -and heavy Misery itself , once heavy enough , will prove didactic ! - CHAPTER III . MANCHESTER INSURRECTION . BLUSTEROWSKI , Colacorde , THE SPHINX . 13.
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... least complain of him ; his labourers did not think of burning his wheatstacks , breaking into his game - preserves ; very far the reverse of all that . Clear evidence , satisfactory even to my friend Dryasdust , * Lyttelton's History ...
... least complain of him ; his labourers did not think of burning his wheatstacks , breaking into his game - preserves ; very far the reverse of all that . Clear evidence , satisfactory even to my friend Dryasdust , * Lyttelton's History ...
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... least , but entirely real and indisputable , though so extremely dim to us ; sunk in the deep distances of Night ! The Winches- ter Manorhouse has fled bodily , like a Dream of the old Night ; not Dryasdust himself can shew a wreck of ...
... least , but entirely real and indisputable , though so extremely dim to us ; sunk in the deep distances of Night ! The Winches- ter Manorhouse has fled bodily , like a Dream of the old Night ; not Dryasdust himself can shew a wreck of ...
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... least ; keep him strictly within the hearth ; he will then cease to be conflagration ; he will then become useful , more or less as culinary fire . Fire is the best of servants ; but what a master ! This poor blockhead too is born for ...
... least ; keep him strictly within the hearth ; he will then cease to be conflagration ; he will then become useful , more or less as culinary fire . Fire is the best of servants ; but what a master ! This poor blockhead too is born for ...
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... least they all are ; all that shall be of them . Our Lord Abbot demands that all the official seals in use among us be now produced and deliv- ered to him . Three - and - thirty seals turn up ; are straightway broken , and shall seal no ...
... least they all are ; all that shall be of them . Our Lord Abbot demands that all the official seals in use among us be now produced and deliv- ered to him . Three - and - thirty seals turn up ; are straightway broken , and shall seal no ...
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Page 136 - French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending: till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition: and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word '"Fire!
Page 151 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal; work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
Page 131 - Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee? Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it!
Page 197 - The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. ' Know thyself: ' long enough has that poor 'self of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to ' know ' it, I believe ! Think it not thy business, this of knowing thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at ; and work at it, like a Hercules ! That will be thy better plan.
Page 148 - Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy!
Page 179 - For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our Conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. For in thee, too, lay a god-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of Labour ; and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on ; thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for daily...
Page 148 - On the roaring billows of Time, thou art not engulfed, but borne aloft into the azure of Eternity. Love not Pleasure ; love God. This is the EVERLASTING YEA, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him.
Page 172 - In the Symbol proper, what we can call a Symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite ; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there.
Page 188 - There is but one Temple in the Universe," says the devout Novalis, "and that is the Body of Man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch Heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
Page 129 - ... all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb.