 Work is of a religious nature: — work is of a brave nature; which it is the aim of all religion to be. All work of man is as the swimmer's: a waste ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance...  Saint Jospeh Medical Herald - Page 661898Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 552 pages
...a brave nature ; which it »8 the aim of all religion to be. All work of man is as the swimmer's : a waste ocean threatens to devour him, if he front...loyally supports him, bears him as its conqueror along. ' It is so (says Goethe) with all things that man undertakes in mis world.' " (p. 260). These, and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...of a brave nature ; which it is the aim of all religion to be. All work of man is as the swimmer's : a waste ocean threatens to devour him ; if he front...loyally supports him, bears him as its conqueror along. ' It is ' so,' says Goethe, 'with all things that man undertakes in this ' world.' Brave Sea-captain,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 280 pages
...brave nature ;l which it is the aim of all' religion to be. All work of man is* as the swimmer's : a waste ocean threatens to devour him ; if he front...loyally supports him, bears him as its conqueror along. ' It is ' so,' says Goethe, 'with all things that man undertakes in this ' world." Brave Sea-captain,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 198 pages
...is of a religious nature : work is of a brave nature ; which it is the aim of all religion to be. " All work of man is as the swimmers : a waste ocean...bravely, it will keep its word. By incessant wise defiances of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it, behold how it loyally supports him, bears him as its... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1843 - 404 pages
...swimmer's: a waste ocean threatens_jto_ devour him ; if he front it not bravely, it will keep it&jyprd. By incessant wise defiance of it, lusty rebuke and...loyally supports him, bears him as its conqueror along. ' It is so,' says Goethe, ' with all things that man undertakes in this world.' Brave Sea-captain,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...brave nature ; which it is the aim of all religion to be. " All work of man is as the swimmer's :" a waste ocean threatens to devour him ; if he front...loyally supports him, bears him as its conqueror along. " It is so," says Goethe, " with all things that man undertakes in this world." Brave Sea-captain,... | |
 | George Budd - 1847 - 36 pages
...been truly said, by one of our most eloquent writers, that " all work of man is as the swimmer's ; a waste ocean threatens to devour him ; if he front...loyally supports him, bears him as its conqueror along. It is so with all things that man undertakes in this world." * But, in taking up your residence among... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 pages
...of a brave nature; which it is the aim of all religion to be. All work of man is as the swimmer's; a waste ocean threatens to devour him; if he front...loyally supports him, bears him as its conqueror along. ' It is so,' says Goothe, 'with all things that man undertakes in this world.' Brave Sea-captain, Norse... | |
 | 432 pages
...and unfed must die. When even lips at Plenty's Feast turn white. work of man is as the swimmer's ; a waste ocean threatens to devour him, if he front...it will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance, lusty rebuke, and And now when e'er I hear the cuckoo's song In budding woods, I bless the joyous comer;... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...of a brave nature, which it is the aim of all religion to he. All work of man is as the swimmer's ; a waste ocean threatens to devour him, if he front it not bravely it will ktep its word. By incessant wise defiance, lusty rebuke, and And now when e'er I hear the cuckoo's... | |
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