 Great, not as a hewn obelisk ; but as an Alpine mountain, — so simple, honest, spontaneous, not setting up to be great at all ; there for quite another purpose than being great ! Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens ;...  The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - 12. oldalszerző: National cyclopaedia - 1884Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 oldal
...setting-up to be great at all ; there for quite another purpose than being great ! Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens ;...these centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful to Heaven. 13» LECTURES ON HEROES. The most interesting phasis which the Reformation anywhere... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 oldal
...setting up to be great at all ; there for quite another purpose than being great ! Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens ;...these centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful to Heaven. The most interesting phasis which the Reformation anywhere assumes, especially... | |
 | American Protestant Association - 1844 - 410 oldal
...setting up to be great at all; there for quite another purpose than being great! Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens ;...Spiritual Hero and Prophet; once more, a true Son of Natare and Fact, for whom these centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful to Heaven."... | |
 | 1844 - 806 oldal
...all ; there for quite another purpose than being great! Ah, yes, unsufcduable granite, piercing fur and wide into the Heavens; — yet in the clefts of...Spiritual Hero and Prophet ; once more, a true Son of Natare and Fací, for whom these centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful to Heaven."... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1845 - 228 oldal
...setting-up to be great at all ; there for quite another purpose than being great ! Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the heavens ;...yet in the clefts of it, fountains, green beautiful vallies with flowers ! A right spiritual hero and prophet; once more a true son of nature and fact,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 oldal
...purpose than being great! Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens;—yet in the clefts of it Fountains, green beautiful valleys...these centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful to Heaven. The most interesting phasis wnieh the ^Reformation anywhere assumes, especially... | |
 | 1856 - 728 oldal
...truly said, " Great was he, not as a hewn obelisk, but as an alpine mountain. Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the heavens, yet in the clefts of it, fountains, gret-n, beautiful valleys with flowers." " In his eyes there is a mild, silent sorrow — tears are... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 oldal
...setting-up to be great at all; there for quite another purpose than being great ! Ah yes, unsub.duable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens; yet...A right Spiritual Hero and Prophet ; once more, a time Son of Nature and Fact, for whom these centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful... | |
 | Christian Karl Josias Freiherr von Bunsen, Thomas Carlyle, Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 302 oldal
...setting up to be great at all ; there for quite another purpose than being great! Ah yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the Heavens ;...these centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful to Heaven. APPENDIX. REVERSE-SIDE OF THE PICTURE. BY SIR WM. HAMILTON.* THE following hasty... | |
 | William Threlkeld Edwards - 1862 - 178 oldal
...setting up to be great at all : there for quite another purpose than being great ! Ah, yes, unsubduable granite, piercing far and wide into the heavens, —...once more, a true son of nature and fact, for whom tliesa centuries, and many that are to come yet, will be thankful to heaven." " Past and Present "... | |
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