| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...critics of small vision, I think, who cry: "See, is it not the sticks that made the fire ?" No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness...been the indispensable saviour of his epoch ; — the lightning, without which the fuel never would have burnt. The History of the World, I said already,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...critics of small vision, I think, who cry : " See, is it not the sticks that made the fire ?" No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness...been the indispensable saviour of his epoch ; — the lightning, without which the fuel never would have burnt. The History of the World, I said already,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...critics of small vision, I think, who cry: '. See, is it not the sticks that made the fire ?'' No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness...been the indispensable saviour of his epoch ;—the lightning, without which the fuel never would have burnt. The History of the World, I said already,... | |
| 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...outward show .who can see no greatness apart from heraldry and patrimony. Carlyle says that " no sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men; it is the last consummation of unbelief." But what is a great man ? No two persons will be found to... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...critics of small vision, I think, who f cry: "See, is it not the sticks that made the fire?" No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness...been the indispensable saviour of his epoch ; — the lightning, without which the fuel never would have burnt. The History of the World, I said already,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...critics of small vision, I think. who cry : " See, is it not the sticks that made the fire ?" No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness...men. There is no sadder symptom of a generation than sunh general blindness to the spiritual lightning, with faith only in tie heap of barren dead fuel.... | |
| 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...feelings that dwells in man's heart. No skeptical logic can destroy this inborn loyalty, and no sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in it. Every true man feels that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 926
...his handbreadth of Space encircled by Infinitude. c. CAKLYLE— Essays. Characteristics. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. d. CAKLYLE — Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture I. To understand man, however, we must look beyond... | |
| Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...mind open to angel-visit* end repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. WILLIS. MAN. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. CARLYLE. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. SHAKESPEARE.... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 954
...(Shakespeare. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. (Pope. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. (Carlyle. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! (Daniel. Man is his... | |
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