Ages. ; this is the element which stamps them as Heroic, and has rendered their works great, manlike, fruitful to all generations. It is by far the memorablest achievement of our Species ; without that element, in some form or other, nothing of Heroic... Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle - Page 51by Thomas Carlyle - 1901Full view - About this book
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...with his mother and wife. About this tune Carlyle thinks Oliver became a Christian man, — one who "believed in God, not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places, and in all cases." In 1628 Oliver is returned to Parliament. In 1631 he removed to St. Ives, a few miles from his native... | |
| Methodist Church - 1846 - 670 pages
...nothing of heroic had ever been among us. " For many centuries, Catholic Christianity, a fit imbodimcnt of that divine sense, had been current more or less,...but on all days, in all places, and in all cases." The earliest of these letters is dated St. Ives, Jan. 11, 1635. It seems that the writer, together... | |
| Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1845 - 588 pages
...Christianity, a fit embodiment of that divine Sense, had been current more or less, making the VOL. :. i generations noble : and here in England, in the Century...upon to raise by subscription, among persons grieved at that state of matters, a Fund for buying-in such Impropriations as might offer themselves ; for... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 pages
...between Right and Wrong" had filled all Time and all Space for man, and bodied itself forth into a Heaven and Hell for him: this constitutes the grand...but on all days, in all places, and In all cases. Is this to be held as the one distinct profession of his own religious opinions, his own belief, which,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1846 - 668 pages
...nothing of heroic had ever been among us. " For many centuries, Catholic Christianity, a fit imbodiment of that divine sense, had been current more or less,...but on all days, in all places, and in all cases." The earliest of these letters is dated St. Ives, Jan. 11, 1635. It seems that the writer, together... | |
| English literature - 1846 - 514 pages
...less, making the generations noble ; and here in England, in the century called the seventeenth, we sec the last aspect of it hitherto — not the last of...but on all days, in all places, and in all cases." As in harmonious and significant unison with the above extract, we must give the following letter,... | |
| 1846 - 492 pages
...epoch ; the turning point which guides upwards or guides downwards, him and his activity for evermore. Oliver was henceforth a Christian man ; believed in...but on all days, in all places, and in all cases. A modest, devout man, solemnly intent to make his calling and election sure ; to whom in credible dialect... | |
| 1846 - 536 pages
...species : without that element, in some form or other, nothing of Heroic had ever been among us. " Oliver was henceforth a Christian man ; believed in...but on all days, in all places, and in all cases. " Oliver naturally consorted henceforth with the Puritan clergy in preference to the other kind, zealously... | |
| University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...««renteenth, we see the last aspect of it hitherto — not the last of all, it is to be hoped. Oliver waR henceforth a Christian man ; believed in God, not...but on all days, in all places, and in all cases." Of the year 1626, the following is Mr. Carlyle's record : — " In the Ashmole museum at Oxford stands... | |
| 1846 - 910 pages
...hitherto— not the last of all, it is to be hoped. Oliver was henceforth a Christian man — believed iu God, not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places, and in all cases.' leaving the reader to make what he can of this statement (involving as it does a religious theory,... | |
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