 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 pages
...quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen-out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.... | |
 | 1834 - 600 pages
...quarrel ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Dculschland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...Simpleton ! their governors had fallen out ; and, instead 16 of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so it is... | |
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...quarrel ? Eusy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunuing to make these poor blockheads shoot.' Turn from this sketch, to the falling-out ' governor'... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 590 pages
...entirest strangers ; nay, iu so wide a universe, there was even, uaconscionsly, by commerce, some mutnal helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shooL' Turn from this sketch, to the falling-out ' governor' — a BONAPARTE,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...quarrel ? Busy as ' the Devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough ' apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a ' Universe, there was...unconsciously, by Commerce, ' some mutual helpfulness between th«m. How then .' ' Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen out ; and, instead ' of shooting one another,... | |
 | 1839 - 536 pages
...quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entires! strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand... | |
 | 1839 - 542 pages
...quarrels ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."* Can such things be when men become sufficiently enlightened to understand... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...quarrel 1 Busy as ' the Devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough ' apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a ' Universe, there was...Commerce, ' some mutual helpfulness between them. How then 1 ' Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen out ; and, instead ' of shooting one another, had the cunning... | |
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... Fire!" is given: and they blow the souls out of one another: and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest!... 
