The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, Volume 10Sampson Low, Marston, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... which made them think that he was seriously ill . His brother John , who had now succeeded him as a teacher in Annan School , was sent for in haste to Mainhill to a consultation , and the result 1881 . 29 EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS CARLYLE .
... which made them think that he was seriously ill . His brother John , who had now succeeded him as a teacher in Annan School , was sent for in haste to Mainhill to a consultation , and the result 1881 . 29 EARLY LIFE OF THOMAS CARLYLE .
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... result of my workings amounted as yet simply to - nothing . How , then , could I believe in my strength when there was as yet no mirror to see it in ? Ever did this agitating , yet , as I now perceive , quite frivolous question remain ...
... result of my workings amounted as yet simply to - nothing . How , then , could I believe in my strength when there was as yet no mirror to see it in ? Ever did this agitating , yet , as I now perceive , quite frivolous question remain ...
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... result has been the natural one - recurrent deadlocks of the political machine . Where the members of Council are nominated the same difficulties do not arise . The number of members is indeed limited , so that the responsible ministers ...
... result has been the natural one - recurrent deadlocks of the political machine . Where the members of Council are nominated the same difficulties do not arise . The number of members is indeed limited , so that the responsible ministers ...
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... result of that beautiful system of compensation on the part of Provi- dence of which , as we pass through life , we see so many proofs . I was always so extremely short - sighted that I was quite unfitted to take part in the majority of ...
... result of that beautiful system of compensation on the part of Provi- dence of which , as we pass through life , we see so many proofs . I was always so extremely short - sighted that I was quite unfitted to take part in the majority of ...
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... result of my further examination was to show me that the broker was right , and that the manuscript was curious as well as old , and I risked a sovereign , or a sovereign and a half , which was the price asked for it , and secured it ...
... result of my further examination was to show me that the broker was right , and that the manuscript was curious as well as old , and I risked a sovereign , or a sovereign and a half , which was the price asked for it , and secured it ...
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Page 401 - Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Page 17 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Page 716 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 815 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 144 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 848 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 444 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 152 - Thy voice is on the rolling air ; I hear thee where the waters run ; Thou standest in the rising sun. And in the setting thou art fair.
Page 42 - I will meet it and defy it.' And as I so thought, there rushed like a stream of fire over my whole soul, and I shook base fear away from me forever. I was strong; of unknown strength; a spirit; almost a god. Ever from that time the temper of my misery was changed; not fear or whining sorrow was it, but indignation and grim fire-eyed defiance.
Page 831 - ... the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety in uniformity.