| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...conquer Cotton, do there not perhaps lie other ten-times nobler conquests ? CHAPTER XI. LABOUR. FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness,...truth, to Nature's appointments and regulations, which are truth. The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. ' Know thyself :' long enough... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 280 pages
...conquer Cotton, do there not perhaps lie other ten-times nobler conquests ? CHAPTER XI. LABOUR. FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness,...truth, to Nature's appointments and regulations, which are truth. The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. ' Know thyself :' long enough... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 198 pages
...conquer Cotton, do there not perhaps lie other ten times nobler conquests ' CHAPTER XI. LABOUR. FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness,...perpetual despair. Work, never so Mammonish, mean, /.v in communication with Nature ; the real desire to get Work done will itself lead one more and more... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...never be forgotten by any reader of imagination. The following extract is from ' Pas; and Present."] There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness,...truth, to Nature's appointments and regulations which are truth. The latest Gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it " Know thyself;" long enough... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 pages
...conquer Cotton, do there not perhaps lie other ten-times nobler conquests 1 CHAPTER XI. LABOUR. FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness,...truth, to Nature's appointments and regulations, which are truth. i The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. y ' Know thyself:' long enough... | |
| 1851 - 486 pages
...the oleaginous particles of the Btearine matter !" There is a perennial nobleness and even gacredncss in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of...truth, to Nature's appointments and regulations, which ure truth. — Carlylc. THE INCONVENIENCE OF GREATNESS. — Tis a pity a man should be so potent that... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...XXIX. THE WEAVER'S SONG. " THEHE is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there...works ; in idleness alone is there perpetual despair. Doubt, desire, sorrow, remorse, indignation, despair itself— all these, like hell-dogs, lie beleaguering... | |
| David Thomas - 674 pages
...perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never go benighted, forgetful of his nigh calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works ; in idleness alone is their perpetual despair. Work, never so Mammonish, mean, is in communication with nature ; the real... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...executioner showed it to the people, amid universal long-continued cries of Virr hi R6publi<pie." WORK. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness,...truth, to Nature's appointments and regulations which are truth. * * * Blessed is he who has found his work ; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a... | |
| 1853 - 1004 pages
...to tell us poor misled Bible readers that we are quite in the wrong. Thomas Carlyle ; hear him : " Work, never so mammonish, mean, is in communication...— to nature's appointments and regulations, which are truth." A tremendous sweep this ! But we have not so learned our relations to God and each other,... | |
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