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" Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue indefeasibly... "
The Changing Order: A Study of Democracy - Page 241
by Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 300 pages
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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...toilworn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard hand ; crooked, coarse...lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the sceptre of this planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, beaoiled, with its rude...
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National association for the promotion of social science - 1870 - 664 pages
...and undeveloped though they be, of freedom, independence, and manhood. Well has Mr. Carlyle said—" Venerable to me is the hard hand ; crooked, coarse,...lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the sceptre of this planet. Venerable, too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its...
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The Juvenile instructor and companion, Volumes 22-23

Young people - 1871 - 686 pages
...toilworn craftsman, that with earth-mado implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard hand — crooked, coarse—...lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the sceptre of this planet. Venerable, too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled with its rude...
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The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle: Sartor resartus (1831). Lectures on ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 408 pages
...Crafts' man that with earth -made Implement laboriously conquers the ' Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; ' crooked, coarse...a cunning virtue, ' indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable ' too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its...
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Wellman's Miscellany, Volumes 5-7

1872 - 320 pages
...toil-worn craftsman, that with earth-made implement, laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard hand ; crooked, coarse...lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the sceptre of this planet. Venerable, too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its...
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The Sunday Magazine

1872 - 932 pages
...breezes have turned into yellowish brown leather, make one thintf of Carlyle's paean to labour : " Venerable to me is the hard hand ; crooked, coarse...notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of this planet. Venerable, too, is the rugged face all weathertanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence...
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Thomas Carlyle, Philosophic Thinker, Theologian, Historian, and Poet

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1875 - 520 pages
...toilworn Craftsman, that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand ; crooked, coarse...lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too, is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, bespoiled, with its...
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An Introduction to the Study of Chaucer

Alexander Monfries - 1875 - 152 pages
...toil-worn craftsman, that with earth-made Implement, laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard hand ; crooked, coarse...lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude...
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The Irish Monthly, Volume 34

1906 - 730 pages
...toil-worn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard hand, crooked, coarse...notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal as the sceptre of this planet. Venerable too, is the rugged face, all weathertanned, besoiled with its...
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The Ragged School Union Magazine, Volumes 15-16

1863 - 588 pages
...physical, be he Jew or Gentile : for, in the quaint phraseology of Thomas Carlyle, to me "Venerable is the rugged face, all weather- tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence, for it is the face of a man living man-like. Oh, but the more venerable for thy rudeness, and even...
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