 What then is man ! What then is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not to...  The Living Age - Page 3551907Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1897 - 362 pages
...value. As Carlyle has put it in one of his finest passages,— What, then, is man ! What, then, is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before...Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more. This conviction of the infinite significance and value of the ethical life is the only view-point from... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 652 pages
...from the azure of the All ! What, then, is man ! What, then, is man ! He endures but for an houi, rmd is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in...Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more. And now we turn back into the world, withdrawing from this new-made grave. The man whom we love lies... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 528 pages
...vanished; faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the All! What, then, is man! What, then, is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before...Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more. And now we turn back into the world, withdrawing from this new-made grave. The man whom we love lies... | |
 | Pauline W. Roose - 1900 - 294 pages
...at least he was always on the side of hope. Writing on Goethe he exclaims — " What then is man ? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before...and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more." And in a letter to John Sterling he quotes Goethe's lines — " The mason's ways are A type of existence,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pages
...have vanished, faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the All! What then is man? What then is man? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before...Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more. And now we turn back into the world, withdrawing from this new-made grave. The man whom we love lies... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 464 pages
...vanished, faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the All ! What then is man ? What then is man ? He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before...assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death- element of TIME; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more. And... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 492 pages
...the azure of the All I What, then, is man ! What, then, is mail ! He endures but for an houi, rjid is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in...Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more. And now we turn back into the world, withdrawing from this new-made grave. The man whom we love lies... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1901 - 454 pages
...from the azure of the All ! What, then, is man ! What, then, is man ! He endures but for an houi, c,nd is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the v.-orking of a faithful man is there already (as all faith, from the beginning, gives assurance) a... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - 1908 - 122 pages
...the Divine: witness the eloquent ejaculation of Carlyle:— "What, then, is man! What, then, 'is man! "He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before...and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more." II THE PERMANENCE OF PERSONALITY "After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise it would... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - 1908 - 316 pages
...the Divine: witness the eloquent ejaculation of Carlyle: "What, then, is man I What, then, is man! "He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before...and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more." CHAPTER IX THE PERMANENCE OF PERSONALITY PAET II "After death the soul possesses self-consciousness,... | |
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