 Often I have found a Portrait superior in real instruction to half-a-dozen written ' Biographies,' as Biographies are written ; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the Biographies could for...  Fresh Fields - Seite 252von John Burroughs - 1884 - 298 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...are written ;— or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted cundle by which the Biographies could for the first time...read, and some human interpretation be made of them ; the Biographied Personage no longer an empty impossible Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 536 Seiten
...Biographies,' as Biographies are written; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the Biographies could...read, and some human interpretation be made of them ; the Biographied Personage no longer an empty impossible Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 Seiten
...Biographies,' as Biographies arc written; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as n small lighted candle by which the Biographies could...read, and some human interpretation be made of them ; the Biographied Personage no longer an empty impossible Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 Seiten
...Biographies,' as Biographies are written ; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the Biographies could...read, and some human interpretation be made of them ; the Biographied Personage no longer an empty impossible Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent... | |
 | 1875 - 860 Seiten
...biographies, as biographies are written ; or rather, let me say I have found that the portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the biographies could...read, and some human interpretation be made of them." — Carlyle, Collected Works, Vol. xi. pp. 241, 242. known, not to the theological doctrines, but to... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1879 - 190 Seiten
...biographies, as biographies are written ; or rather, let me say I have found that the portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the biographies could,...read, and some human interpretation be made of them." — Oarlyle, Collected Works, Vol. xi. pp. 241, 242. nlism in Germany has been the absence, not from... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 498 Seiten
...Biographies," as Biographies are written ; — or rather, let me say, I have found that the Portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the Biographies could...read, and some human interpretation be made of them ; the Biographied Personage no longer an empty impossible Phantasm, or distracting Aggregate of inconsistent... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1884 - 420 Seiten
...biographies, ns biographies are written; or rather, let me say, I have found that the portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the biographies could for the first time he read, and some human interpretation be made of them." — Carlyle, Collicted Works, vol. xi. pp.... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1885 - 390 Seiten
..." Often I have foupd a Portrait superior in real instruction to half a dozen written 'Biographies,1 as Biographies are written ; or, rather, let me say,...with the emphasis of a clap of thunder, the modern levelling impersonal tendencies, the "manifest destinies," the blind mass movements, the merging of... | |
 | Rev. Joseph Cook - 1885 - 424 Seiten
...biographies, as biographies are written; or rather, let me say, I have found that the portrait was as a small lighted candle by which the biographies could...read, and some human interpretation be made of them." — Carlyle, Collected Work*, voL xi pp. 241, 242. sence, not from its religious doctrines, but from... | |
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