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" of itself, and finding nothing of peculiar in this new trial laid on it. From of old, Life has been infinitely contemptible to him. In death, I think, he has neither fear nor hope. Atheism, truly, he never could abide: to him, as to all of us, it was... "
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great - Page 662
by Thomas Carlyle - 1865 - 778 pages
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The North British Review, Volume 43

English literature - 1865 - 550 pages
...simplicity of stoicism in him; coming as if by nature, or by long second-nature; finely unconscious of itself, and finding nothing of peculiar in this...could abide : to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into him by an Entity that had none...
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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great

Thomas Carlyle - Prussia (Germany) - 1865 - 488 pages
...simplicity of stoicism in him; coming as if by nature, or by long second-nature; finely unconscious of itself, and finding nothing of peculiar in this...could abide: to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into him by an Entity that had none...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 118

English literature - 1865 - 606 pages
...simplicity of stoicism in him : coming as if by nature, or by long second nature : finely unconscious of itself, and finding nothing of peculiar in this...could abide ; to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into us by an Entity that had none...
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History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great, Volume 6

Thomas Carlyle - Prussia - 1866 - 640 pages
...simplicity of stoicism in him; coming as if by nature, or by long second - nature; finely unconscious of itself, and finding nothing of peculiar in this...could abide: to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into him by an Entity that had none...
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Essays and Reviews

Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...simplicity of stoicism in him ; coming as if by nature, or by long swwwf-nature ; finely unconscious of itself, and finding nothing of peculiar in this...could abide : to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into him by an Entity that had none...
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The Spiritual Magazine

Spiritualism - 1877 - 598 pages
...the Great, says there was one form of scepticism which the all-doubting Frederick could not endure. " Atheism truly he never could abide; to him, as to all of us," says Carlyle " it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into...
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LESSONS FROM MY MASTERS CARLYLE TENNYSON AND RUSKIN

PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...vogue in the time of his youth. "Atheism," we may say of him as he says of Frederick of Prussia, " he never could abide: to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into him by an Entity that had none...
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Lessons from My Masters, Carlyle, Tennyson and Ruskin

Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 464 pages
...vogue in the time of his youth. " Atheism," we may say of him as he says of Frederick of Prussia, " he never could abide: to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into him by an Entity that had none...
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Biology, with preludes on current events. Repr

Joseph Cook - 1879 - 178 pages
...the Great, says there was one form of scepticism which the all-doubting Frederic could not endure. " Atheism, truly, he never could abide: to him, as to all of us," says Carlyle, " it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into...
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The New Englander, Volume 4

Criticism - 1881 - 868 pages
...these show. this same Volume X. of his Frederick, he says of his her — religion, or non-religion : "Atheism truly he never could abide: to him. as to all of us, it was flatlyconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into him b>»^ entity that had...
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