 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
 | David Boucher - 1997 - 364 pages
...value. As Carlyle has put it in one of his f1nest passages, 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 d Without encumbering the main argument by inopportune discussion, one may perhaps ask in a note in... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1832 - 624 pages
...vanished, faded like a cloudspeck from the azure of the All 1 What then is man ? What then is any 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 newmade grave. The man whom we love... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 968 pages
...vanished ; faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the All I 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... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1897 - 788 pages
...though 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,... | |
 | Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) - 1908 - 372 pages
...remember the eloquent words of Carlyle : " What, then, is man ? What, then, is man ? He endures for but an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the...and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more." For, after all, there is a unity running through the universe, and a kinship between the human and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1106 pages
...will one day have vanished; faded like a cloud-speck from the azure of the all! What, then, is man? will be, when time shall be no more." — THOMAS CARLYLE. LITERARY CAREER — AUTHOR, EDITOR, AND POET... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire - 1916 - 784 pages
...working of a faithful man there is always a something that pertains not to this wild death element of time; that triumphs over time, and is and will be when time is no mo^e. " The life which we commemorate here was well known and read of his fellow-citizens. John... | |
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