 | Congregationalism - 1871 - 614 pages
...Truth is our divinity, (p. 9.) And to end all, he gives Teufelsdrockh the dyspepsia, in these words: " A prey incessantly to such corrosions, might not,...locomotive^ habits, perhaps sickness of the chronic sort." (p. 74.) Of course, when the object is the delineation of spiritual struggles, we should look for spiritual... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1871 - 408 pages
...solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death 1 ' Why was the Living banished thither companionless, consciou?' ' Why if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?1 A prey incessantly to such corrosions, might not, moreover, athe worst aggravation to them, the... | |
 | 1872 - 778 pages
...solitary t'Olgotha and mill of Death ! why was the living banished thither, companionless, conscious ? Why ? if there is no devil; nay. unless the devil is your God ? " No, it is even so; it may be said, we have become cultured and enlightened now, and we leave far... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Demonology - 1879 - 494 pages
...solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death ! Why was the Living banished thither, companionless, conscious ? Why, if there is no Devil ; nay, unless the Devil is your God ?' . . . ' From suicide a certain aftershine of Christianity withheld me.' . . . ' So had it lasted,... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 884 pages
...solitary Golgotha and mill of death ! Why was the living banished thither companionlcss, conscious ? Why, if there is no devil, nay, unless the devil is your god ? From suicide a certain aftershine (Nachschein) of Christianity withheld me, perhaps also a certain... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, Scottish - 1882 - 502 pages
...solitary Golgotha and mill of death ! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious ? Why, if there is no devil, nay, unless the devil is your god ? . . . From suicide a certain aftershine (Nachschein) of Christianity withheld me, perhaps also a... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, English - 1882 - 598 pages
...solitary Golgotha and mill of death ! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no devil, nay, unless the devil is your god? . . . From suicide a certain aftershme (Nachschein) of Christianity withheld me, perhaps also a certain... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, English - 1882 - 812 pages
...solitary Golgotha and mill of death I Why was the living banished thither compauionless, conscious? Why, if there is no devil, nay, unless the devil is your god? . . . From suieide a certain aftershinc (Nachschein) of Christianity withheld me, perhaps also a certain... | |
 | English literature - 1883 - 530 pages
...solitary Golgotha and mill of death ! Why was the living banished thither companionless conscious ? Why, if there is no devil, nay, unless the devil is your God ? " You will easily recall many more passages of a similar character. Some minds are able to pass into... | |
 | American periodicals - 1883 - 866 pages
...solitary Golgotha and mill of death ! Why was the living banished thither companionless conscious? \Vliv. if there is no devil, nay, unless the devil is your God?" You will easily recall many more passages of a similar character. Some minds are able to pass into... | |
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... all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. 
