 Shoeblack they are as nothing. No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself...  Throne-makers - Page 168by William Roscoe Thayer - 1899 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 pages
...quarrelling with the proprietor of the other hah7, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. — Always there is a black spot in our sunshine : it is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. 'But the whim we have of Happiness is somewhat thus. By certain... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. — Always there is a black spot in our sunshine ; it is even, as I said, the shadow of ourselves. " But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus : By certain... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...quarrelling ' with the proprietor of the other half, and declares him' self the most maltreated of men. — Always there is a ' black spot in our sunshine : it is even, as I said, the ' Shadow of Ourselves. ' But the whim we have of Happiness is somewhat ' thus. By certain... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine; it is even, as I said, the shadow of ourselves. "I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere; "there is in man a... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 pages
...quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and ' declares himself the most maltreated of men. — Always there is • a black spot in our sunshine : it is even, as I said, the Shadow ' of Ourselves. ' But the whim we have of Happiness is somewhat thus. By ' certain... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - 556 pages
...something better, he does not sufficiently impress upon them that if, in his own beautiful words, " always there is a black spot in our sunshine, it is even the shadow of ourselves," and that " he who seeks out of himself what is found in himself, will seek forever and find nothing."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1850 - 676 pages
...quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and ' declares himself the most maltreated of men. — Always there is ' a black spot in our sunshine : it is even, as I said, the Shadow ' of Ourselres. ' But the whim we have of Happiness is somewhat thus. By ' certain... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pages
...quarrelling ' with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the ' most maltreated of men. — Always there is a black spot in our ' sunshine : it is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves. ' But the whim we have of Happiness is somewhat thus. By ' certain... | |
 | 1869 - 642 pages
...quite bury under the Finite — 'he can't possess all, therefore he is disappointed, unhappy' — ' always there is a black spot in our sunshine, it is even the shadow of ourselves:' he concludes, ' It is only with Renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin, close... | |
 | 1869 - 434 pages
...quite bury under the Finite " — " he can't possess all, therefore he is disappointed, unhappy" — " always there is a black spot in our sunshine, it is even the shadow of ourselves:" he concludes, " It is only with Renunciation that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin, close... | |
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