| Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 sivua
...author of the " Holy Fair " a type of the children of the covenant. In his " Sartor Kesartus," Caiiyle, with that felicitous pictorial power for which he...hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped in — on the last rear of the host shall be read traces of the earliest van." Subordinated to this general... | |
| 1834 - 784 sivua
...: can the Earth, which is but dead and a vision, resist Spirits which have reality and are alive Í On the hardest adamant some foot-print of us is stamped in ; the last Rear of the host will read traces of the earliest Van. But whence ? — О Heaven, whither ? Sense knows not ; Faith... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 sivua
...passage. Can the earth, which is but dead and a vision, resist spirits which have reality, and are alive ? On the hardest adamant some foot-print of us is stamped in ; the last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence? — O Heaven, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 sivua
...can the Earth, which is but dead and ' a vision, resist Spirits which have reality and are ' alive ? On the hardest adamant some foot-print of us ' is stamped in ; the last Rear of the host will read ' traces of the earliest Van. But whence ? — O Heaven, ' whither ? Sense knows not ; Faith... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 sivua
...passage. Can the earth, which is but dead and a vision, resist spirits which have reality, and arc alive ? On the hardest adamant some foot-print of us is stamped in ; the last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence ? O heaven, whither ? Sense knows not ; faith knows... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 326 sivua
...can the Earth, which is but dead and ' a vision, resist Spirits which have reality and are • alive? On the hardest adamant some foot-print of us ' is stamped in ; the last Rear of the host will read ' traces of the earliest Van. But whence? — O Heaven, 'whither? Sense knows not ; Faith... | |
| 1850 - 676 sivua
...passage : Can the earth, which is but dead and a vision, resist spirits which have reality and are alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped in ; the last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence ? O heaven, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows... | |
| 1864 - 752 sivua
...this singular book are the following sentences, the rirst from Carlyle and the second from Babbage : " On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped in ; the last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van." "The air is one vast library, on whose pages are forever written... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 sivua
...passage : Can the earth, which is but dead and a vision, resist spirits which have reality and are alive? On the hardest adamant some footprint of us is stamped in ; the last rear of the host will read traces of the earliest van. But whence? O heaven, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows not;... | |
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