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... seen in this world . England is full of wealth , of multifarious produce , sup- ply for human want in every kind ; yet England is dying of in- anition . With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow ...
... seen in this world . England is full of wealth , of multifarious produce , sup- ply for human want in every kind ; yet England is dying of in- anition . With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow ...
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... seen ! - The secret of gold Midas , which he with his long ears never could discover , was , That he had offended the Supreme Powers ; that he had parted company with the eternal inner Fact of this Universe , and followed the transient ...
... seen ! - The secret of gold Midas , which he with his long ears never could discover , was , That he had offended the Supreme Powers ; that he had parted company with the eternal inner Fact of this Universe , and followed the transient ...
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... seen alive ? Extinct species , we say ; for the live specimens which still go about under that character are too evidently to be classed as spurious in Natural History : the Gospel of Richard Arkwright once promulgated , no Monk of the ...
... seen alive ? Extinct species , we say ; for the live specimens which still go about under that character are too evidently to be classed as spurious in Natural History : the Gospel of Richard Arkwright once promulgated , no Monk of the ...
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... seen moving : very strange ; whom we could hail if he would answer ; -and we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own , imaging our own , but all unconscious of us ; to whom we for the time are become as spirits and invisible ! 4 ...
... seen moving : very strange ; whom we could hail if he would answer ; -and we look into a pair of eyes deep as our own , imaging our own , but all unconscious of us ; to whom we for the time are become as spirits and invisible ! 4 ...
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... seen and felt by all men to have done verily a man's part in this life - pilgrimage of his ; and benedictions , and outflowing love and admiration from the universal heart , were his meed . Well- done ! Well - done ! cried the hearts of ...
... seen and felt by all men to have done verily a man's part in this life - pilgrimage of his ; and benedictions , and outflowing love and admiration from the universal heart , were his meed . Well- done ! Well - done ! cried the hearts of ...
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Abbot Samson Adamite æther answer Aristocracy Auscultator become blessed brother centuries Chaos CHAPTER Chartism Clothes Corn-Laws dark Dastards dead Devil Dilettantism discern divine Earth Editor Edmund Edmundsbury Elmswell England English eternal everywhere existence eyes fact Fantasms French Revolution God's Goethe govern hast heart Heaven honour hope human idle infinite Jocelin kind King labour Laissez-faire land Laws light living Loculus look Lord Abbot Mammonism man's manner mean ment millions Monks mysterious Nature never noble once Parliament perhaps Phantasms poor Poor-Law present Professor reader religion Richard Arkwright round Sartor Resartus Satanic School Saxon shalt shew silent Society soul speak spirit stand strange struggling Teufelsdröckh thee things THOMAS CARLYLE thou art thou wilt thought thousand thyself tion true truth Universe wages whatsoever wherein whole wise withal word workhouses worship
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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.