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... means ! In starved sieged cities , in the uttermost doomed ruin of old Jerusalem fallen under the wrath of God , it was prophesied and said , ' The hands of the pitiful woman have sodden their own children . ' The stern Hebrew ...
... means ! In starved sieged cities , in the uttermost doomed ruin of old Jerusalem fallen under the wrath of God , it was prophesied and said , ' The hands of the pitiful woman have sodden their own children . ' The stern Hebrew ...
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... mean scarcity and inability . We have sumptuous garnitures for our Life , but have forgotten to live in the middle ... means of it , let them give us their name ! Many men eat finer cookery , drink dearer liquors , with what advantage ...
... mean scarcity and inability . We have sumptuous garnitures for our Life , but have forgotten to live in the middle ... means of it , let them give us their name ! Many men eat finer cookery , drink dearer liquors , with what advantage ...
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... means celestial order , pliancy to wisdom ; but there is also a darkness , a ferocity , fatality , which are infernal . She is a goddess , but one not yet disimprisoned ; one still half - imprisoned , -the articulate , lovely still ...
... means celestial order , pliancy to wisdom ; but there is also a darkness , a ferocity , fatality , which are infernal . She is a goddess , but one not yet disimprisoned ; one still half - imprisoned , -the articulate , lovely still ...
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... mean to do with us ? " in a manner audible to every reflective soul in this kingdom ; exciting deep pity in all good men , deep anxiety in all men whatever ; and no conflagration or outburst of madness came to cloud that feeling ...
... mean to do with us ? " in a manner audible to every reflective soul in this kingdom ; exciting deep pity in all good men , deep anxiety in all men whatever ; and no conflagration or outburst of madness came to cloud that feeling ...
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... mean to lead us towards work ; to try to lead us , — by ways new , never yet heard of till this new unheard - of Time ? Or if you declare that you cannot lead us ? And expect that we are to remain quietly unled , and in a composed ...
... mean to lead us towards work ; to try to lead us , — by ways new , never yet heard of till this new unheard - of Time ? Or if you declare that you cannot lead us ? And expect that we are to remain quietly unled , and in a composed ...
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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.