 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 pages
...body stands so broad and brawny, must the Soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated ! Alas, was this too a Breath of God ; bestowed in Heaven,...tragedy, were it to happen more than twenty times in the minute, as by some computations it does. The miserable fraction of Science which our united Mankind,... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 42 pages
...• dwarfed, stupified. almost annihilated ? Alas! was this too, a breath of God bestowed in Ueaven, but on Earth never to be unfolded ? That there should one man die ignorant, who hid the capacity for knowledge, this 1 call a tragedy, were it to happen twenty times in the minute.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupified, almost annihilated? Alas, was this, too, a Breath of God ; bestowed in...tragedy, were it to happen more than twenty times in the minute, as by some computations it does. The miserable fraclion of science which united mankind,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...stands so broad and brawny, must the Soul ' lie blinded, dwarfed, stupified, almost annihilated ! ' Alas, was this too a Breath of God : bestowed in '...tragedy, were it to happen ' more than twenty times in the minute, as by some ' computations it does. The miserable fraction of ' Science which united mankind,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...Body stands so broad and brawny, must the Soul 'lie blinded, dwarfed, stupified, almost annihilated! ' Alas, was this too a Breath of God : bestowed in '...die Ignorant who had capacity ' for Knowledge, this 1 call a tragedy, were it to happen ' more than twenty times in the minute, as by some ' computations... | |
 | 1840 - 468 pages
...annihilated ! Alas ! was this too a Breath of God ; hestowed in Heaven, hut on Earth . never to he unfolded .' That there should one man die ignorant...tragedy, were it to happen more than twenty times in the minute, as hy some computations it does. POETRY. THE TREE OF LIFE. FROM THK GERMAN. WHEN Adam's... | |
 | 1840 - 532 pages
...annihilated. Was this, too, a birth of God; bestowed of heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded 1 That there should one man die ignorant, who had capacity...knowledge, this I call a tragedy, were it to happen twenty times in a minute." * A convict in one of the state prisons, so says one of those very witty... | |
 | 1843 - 948 pages
...stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupified, almost annihilated! Alas 1 was this too a breath of God ; bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded 1 That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy, were... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 pages
...blinded, dwarfed, stupified, ' almost annihilated ! Alas, was this too a Breath of God ; be' stowed in Heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded ! —...there should one Man die Ignorant who had capacity for Know' ledge, this I call a tragedy, were it to happen more than twenty ' times in the minute, as by... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 260 pages
...blinded, dwarfeJ, Htupified, 'almost annihilated! Alas, was.th"is~Tob "aTBreath of God ; beJstowed in Heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded !—That.../'there should one Man die Ignorant who had capacity for Know' ledge, this_I_call_ a_tra.gedyffwere it to happen more than twenty ' times in the minute, as... | |
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Alas, was this too a Breath of God; bestowed in Heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded! — That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy, were it to happen more than twenty times in the minute, as by... 
