Thomas CarlyleChatto & Windus, 1881 - 223 pages |
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... believe in a Devil . To me the Universe was 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 . Oh ...
... believe in a Devil . To me the Universe was 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 . Oh ...
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... believe that their suffrage should be trusted in government . At the same time he knew too much of the nobility , gentry and parsons round about to believe that their suffrage was much better . So he came to his passionate worship of ...
... believe that their suffrage should be trusted in government . At the same time he knew too much of the nobility , gentry and parsons round about to believe that their suffrage was much better . So he came to his passionate worship of ...
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... believe that such a Utopia of perfect subordination between the higher and lower might be realised , he lent a too ready ear to the fanciful pictures which southerners personally drew for him of their pastoral life . I have often heard ...
... believe that such a Utopia of perfect subordination between the higher and lower might be realised , he lent a too ready ear to the fanciful pictures which southerners personally drew for him of their pastoral life . I have often heard ...
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amid Athens blue day born boundless brave Burns Carlyle wrote Carlyle's chaos content thee Craigenputtock dark dawning Another blue dear affection Death Devil devouring divine dost Dumfries earth Ecclefechan Ephron the Hitite eternal evermore evil lessons faith field of Ephron Fifty-six years ago fire force forgotten gathered genius GOETHE grave Haddington Cathedral hath been dawning heard heart Heaven heroes heroism hey buried holding the plough human ignorance influence kings knew labours light lived lonely long watch lowly memory moonshine mortal never nobler pangs passed peasant pious Poor moth prophecy pulpit religion Sartor Resartus Schiller Scotch Church seedfield sell thy shams Slip useless smite Socrates sorrow soul SOUTH PLACE spirit stars Sterling's superstition thine things thinker THOMAS CARLYLE thou art thou findest thou wilt toils tomb Tophet tragic pilgrimage truth universe Untruth village road Voltaire Wellington wilt thou let worship