Thomas CarlyleChatto & Windus, 1881 - 223 pages |
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... chaos of a fermenting life , act magically there and produce divulsions and convul- sions and diseased developments . So dark and abstruse , without lamp or authentic finger - post , is the course of pious genius towards the Eternal ...
... chaos of a fermenting life , act magically there and produce divulsions and convul- sions and diseased developments . So dark and abstruse , without lamp or authentic finger - post , is the course of pious genius towards the Eternal ...
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... Chaos , but of Intelligence , Divinity and Thee ! But above all , where thou findest Ignorance , Stupidity , Brute - minded- ness , attack it , I say , smite it wisely , unweariedly , and rest not while thou livest , and it lives , but ...
... Chaos , but of Intelligence , Divinity and Thee ! But above all , where thou findest Ignorance , Stupidity , Brute - minded- ness , attack it , I say , smite it wisely , unweariedly , and rest not while thou livest , and it lives , but ...
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... chaos . But no man was more opposed to injustice and oppression where he recognised them ; and no man would more have overwhelmed the actual vices and brutalities of negro slavery , had he lived amid them , than he who detested the last ...
... chaos . But no man was more opposed to injustice and oppression where he recognised them ; and no man would more have overwhelmed the actual vices and brutalities of negro slavery , had he lived amid them , than he who detested the last ...
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