 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...gentleman so used ! ' — I tell thee, Blockhead, it all comes of thy Vanity ; ' of what thou fanciest those same deserts of thine to be. ' Fancy that thou...itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make ' thy clajm of wages a zero, then ; thou hast the world ' under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...discovered anything which the martyrs did not see ages ago? And when 'he announces as a great truth, " well did the wisest of our time write, It is only with Renunciation that life, properly, speaking, can be said to begin" — has he not repeated, as the result of one... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...be ' increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by ' lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive ' me, Unity itself...did the Wisest of our time write : " It is only with Renun' ciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to ' begin." 'I asked myself: What... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 676 pages
...Denominator. Nay. unless my Algebra detirn ' me. Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make tkr ' claim of wages a zero, then ; thou hast the world under thy if ' Well did the Wisest of our time write : " It is only with Kerne ' ciation (Entsagen) that Life,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1856 - 386 pages
...be increased in value, not so much by increasing your numerator, as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceive me, unity itself divided...wisest of our time write: It is only with renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin. I asked myself, What is this that, ever since earliest... | |
 | John Orr (Unitarian minister.) - 1857 - 518 pages
...be increased in value, not so much by increasing your Numerator, as by lessening your Denominator, Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided...of our time write : ' It is only with Renunciation, that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' " Sartor Resartus, p. 207. 3D Self-denial, in... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - English literature - 1865 - 284 pages
...can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided...Zero, then ; thou hast the world under thy feet." But in proof of this statement, if proof were needed, that Carlyle combines in himself at once the... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - English literature - 1865 - 284 pages
...can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of a Zero, then; thou hast the world under thy feet." But in proof of this statement, if proof were needed,... | |
 | David James Vaughan - 1865 - 392 pages
...constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality." — JS Mill's " Utilitarianism," pp. 24, 25. 8 "Well did the wisest of our time write: 'It is only with renunciation, that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin ?' " " There is in man a Higher than love of happiness... | |
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I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make thy claim of wages a zero,... 
