| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1841 - 408 pages
...work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fl«ets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
| William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 pages
...same subject by the very thoughtful but eccentric authorof " Heroes — Hero Worship" " In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past when the body and material suhstance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and aimies, harbours aud arsenals,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
| Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 720 pages
...and speech, of those regal intellects that are born to rule mankind. " In books," says Carlyle, "lies the soul of the whole past time: the articulate, audible voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." Books have proved themselves to be monuments... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 pages
...108. ^r LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM. LITEEATUEE AND JOUENALISM. THE VOICE OF THE PAST. In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1869 - 328 pages
...work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1871 - 408 pages
...work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
| Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - Labor - 1873 - 424 pages
...reading. Therein, rightly considered, lies the true path to knowledge, to power. "In Books," says Carlyle, "lie the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate...audible voice of the Past when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals,... | |
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