 It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero.  The biblical museum. Old Testament - Página 227por James Comper Gray - 1878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 páginas
...be shot has hia " honour of a soldier," different from drill, regulations, and the shilling a day. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act oil the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that bums up til i lower... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 páginas
...be shot, has his • honour of a soldier,' different from drill-regulations and the shilling a day. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...things, and vindicate himself under God's Heaven as lectll. THE HERO AS PROPHET. 6$ a god-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him... | |
 | William Delafield Arnold - 1853 - 314 páginas
...call on Jenkyns." " By Jove," rejoined Stanton, " so we ought, I forgot all about it." CHAPTER IV. " IT is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong him greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the... | |
 | William Delafield Arnold - 1854 - 310 páginas
...sitting in your tent for the last hour, when we ought to have been going to call on Jenkyns." CHAP. IV. " It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong him greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the... | |
 | 1855 - 864 páginas
...until it falls into the sleep of death. And yet the words of a great but eccentric mind are true: — "To do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Shew him the way of doing that, the dullest... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 238 páginas
...vindicate himself under God's Heaven as a god-made Man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Shew him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles...greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnega tion, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...trust, and duly discharged that office, he acquits himself at departing. Efirurat. MAN— Enthusiasm of. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the alluremfnts that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that... | |
 | 1871 - 970 páginas
...to be shot, has liis honour of a soldier different from drill, regulations, and the shilling a day. It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, and the dullest drudge kindles into a hero. " ' They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced... | |
 | 1880 - 630 páginas
...action by ease, hope of pleasure, recompense, — sugarplums of any kind, in this world or the next. ... It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero." Whether or not Carlyle is here in any degree too trustful in the nobility of average humankind, as... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1871 - 506 páginas
...hired to be shot, has his honor of a soldier different from drill, regulations, and the shilling a day- It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and...Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, and the dullest drudge kindles into a hero. 'They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by... | |
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