 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...imperfect enough : but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect ? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the...of a Man actually sent down from the skies with a God's-message to us, — this we waste away as an idle artificial firework, sent to amuse us a little,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pages
...imperfect enough : but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect ? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the...of a Man actually sent down from the skies with a God's-message to us, — this we waste away as an idle artificial firework, sent to amuse us a little,... | |
 | 1846 - 602 pages
...venerate, and bow down submissive before great men: nay. can we honestly bow down to any thing else?"— P. 23. , " The most precious gift that Heaven can...ever dwelt honestly as true in the heart of man, but teas an honest insight into God's truth on man's part, and has an essential truth in it, which endures... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 610 pages
...venerate, and bow down submissive before great men: nay, am we honestly bow down to any thing else?"— P. 23. " The most precious gift that Heaven can give...67. " No fact that ever dwelt honestly as true in Ihe heart of man, but was an honest insight into (sod's truth on man's part, and has an essential truth... | |
 | D. W. Clark - 1856 - 450 pages
...of God, in such a sense as to constitute the man so gifted, a seer, a prophet, a divine messenger. "A man of 'genius,' as we call it; the soul of a man...sent down from the skies with a God's message to us." And of all conceivable souls, this is said of the soul of Kobert Burns ! Alas for us all, if the God... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Association (England) - 1856 - 456 pages
...of God, in such a sense as to constitute the man so gifted, a seer, a prophet, a divine messenger. "A man of 'genius,' as we call it ; the soul of a...sent down from the skies with a God's message to us." And of all conceivable souls, this is said of the soul of Robert Burns ! Alas for us all, if the God... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 238 pages
...imperfect enough : but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect ? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the...Earth; a man of ' genius' as we call it; the Soul of & Man actually sent down from the skies with a God's-message to us,—this we waste away as an idle... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...imperfect enough : but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the...of a Man actually sent down from the skies with a God's-message to us,— this we waste away as an idle artificial firework, sent to amuse us a little,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 222 pages
...imperfect enough : but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect ? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the Earth ; a man of c genius ' as we call it ; the Soul of a Man actually sent down from the skies with a God's-message... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 pages
...imperfect enough : but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect ? The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the...of a Man actually sent down from the skies with a God's-message to us, — this we waste away as an idle artificial firework, sent to amuse us a little,... | |
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The most precious gift that Heaven can give to the Earth; a man of "genius" as we call it; the Soul of a Man actually sent down from the skies with a... 
