 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 pages
...Atlantis — that we must recognise "humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and suffering, as divine — nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hindrances, but to honour them, as furtherances of what is holy." In answer to Emerson's Puritanic criticisms Carlyle... | |
 | William Chatterton Coupland - 1895 - 746 pages
...with the Earth, and let it be beneath us, we appealing to a higher birthplace; hut 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... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1897 - 388 pages
...destined to attain, — to recognize humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, as divine, — nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hindrances, out to honor and love them as furtherances of what is holy." On sin and crime, as we have seen, Carlyle... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1898 - 390 pages
...destined to attain, — to recognize humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, as divine, — nay, even on sin and crime to look...honor and love them as furtherances of what is holy." On sin and crime, as we have seen, Carlyle looks with no such tenderness. But if he does not care for... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 444 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, but to honour and love them as furtherances, of what is holy. Of this, indeed, we find some traces in all... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 556 pages
...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, to recognise these things as divine; nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hindrances, but to honour... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 550 pages
...poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death, to recognise these tilings as divine ; nay, even on sin and crime to look not as hindrances, but to honour and love them as furtherances, of what is holy. Of this, indeed, we find some traces in all... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 956 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,... | |
 | Sir John Herkless - 1901 - 256 pages
...us. ... But what a task was it, not only to be patient with the Earth, . . . but also to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, disgrace and wretchedness, suffering and death, to recognise these things as divine." One seems to hear in these words an echo of the famous Canticle... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1902 - 426 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,... | |
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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,... 
