The British Quarterly Review, Volume 10Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1849 - Christianity |
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... existence as having a meaning , must say amen to it . Much , too , may be said , in vindication of Mr. Carlyle's wrath against a large class of formalist and conventionalist people who flatter themselves that they are great believers ...
... existence as having a meaning , must say amen to it . Much , too , may be said , in vindication of Mr. Carlyle's wrath against a large class of formalist and conventionalist people who flatter themselves that they are great believers ...
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... existence has not been a conspicuous virtue in our men of letters . Not a little in their doings , as all the world knows , has been quite as frothy as the most empty - headed and empty- hearted in the crowds about them could have ...
... existence has not been a conspicuous virtue in our men of letters . Not a little in their doings , as all the world knows , has been quite as frothy as the most empty - headed and empty- hearted in the crowds about them could have ...
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... existence to soul - conflicts and earnest spiritual breathings , in a degree that would be censured as excessive and morbid . Of the soul - history of some myriads — of many myriads of truly religious people in this country , we must ...
... existence to soul - conflicts and earnest spiritual breathings , in a degree that would be censured as excessive and morbid . Of the soul - history of some myriads — of many myriads of truly religious people in this country , we must ...
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... existence both of religious formalism and of religious extravagance ; but between these there is something much better than either , which Mr. Carlyle does not see , and to which , accordingly , he has never done justice . In support of ...
... existence both of religious formalism and of religious extravagance ; but between these there is something much better than either , which Mr. Carlyle does not see , and to which , accordingly , he has never done justice . In support of ...
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... existence really means , whence it came , what it should be ? -on these ques- tions , on which scarcely a thought is bestowed by the vulgar or dilettante crowd about him , his own thoughts are gravely fixed . But after what manner has ...
... existence really means , whence it came , what it should be ? -on these ques- tions , on which scarcely a thought is bestowed by the vulgar or dilettante crowd about him , his own thoughts are gravely fixed . But after what manner has ...
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Page 242 - Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God'.
Page 520 - There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat, and grows old : God help, the while, a bad world, I say. I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or anything.
Page 245 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 246 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 33 - All true Work is sacred ; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness. Labour, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven. Sweat of the brow ; and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart ; which includes all Kepler calculations, Newton meditations, all Sciences, all spoken Epics, all acted Heroisms, Martyrdoms, — up to that 'Agony of bloody sweat,' which all men have called divine!
Page 333 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 256 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 444 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 35 - 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. It has been written, "an endless significance lies in Work;" a man perfects himself by working.
Page 37 - The notion that a man's liberty consists in giving his vote at electionhustings, and saying, "Behold now I too have my twenty-thousandth part of a Talker in our National Palaver; will not all the gods be good to me?