 | Thomas Carlyle - 1824 - 374 pages
...with the Earth, and let it lie heneath us, we appealing to a higher birthplace ; but also to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death, to recognise these things as divine ; nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hindrances, but to honour... | |
 | 1827 - 372 pages
...last step to which mankind were fitted and destined to attain. But what a task was it, not only to be patient with the Earth, and let it lie beneath us,...we appealing to a higher birth-place ; but also to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, Muttering and death,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 pages
...last step to which mankind were fitted and destined to attain. But what a task was it not only to be patient with the Earth, and let it lie beneath us, we appealing to a higher birthplace ; but also to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...last step to which mankind were fitted and destined to attain. But what a task was it, not only to be patient with the Earth, and let it lie beneath us, we appealing to a higher birthplace ; but also to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 260 pages
...Earth, and let it lie beneath us, we apEealing to a higher birth-place ; but also to recognise umility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death, to recognise these things as divine: nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hindrances, but to honour... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1842 - 304 pages
...humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death, to recognise these things as divine ; nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hinderances, but to honour and love them as furtherances, of what is holy. Of this, indeed, VOL. III.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...last step to which mankind were fitted and destined to attain. But what a task was it not only to be patient with the Earth, and let it lie beneath us, we appealing to a higher birthplace; but also to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death,... | |
 | Arthur Helps - 1845 - 304 pages
...which, as Goethe well says, is grounded on " Reverence for what is under " us," and which teaches us " to recognize " humility and poverty, mockery and despite,...disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and " death, as things divine." There is a class of men utterly different from those above alluded to, who, far... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1845 - 308 pages
...which, as Goethe well says, is grounded on " Reverence for what is under " us," and which teaches us " to recognize " humility and poverty, mockery and despite,...disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and " death, as things divine." There is a class of men utterly different from those above alluded to, who, far... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 620 pages
...humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death, to recognise these things as divine ; nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hindrances, hut to honor and love them as furtherances, of what is holy. Of this, indeed, we find some traces in... | |
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I'nder us: this we name the Christian; as in the Christian Religion such a temper is the most distinctly manifested: it is a last step to which mankind were fitted and destined to attain. But what a task was it, not only to be patient with the Earth,... 
