| Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 172 Seiten
...white or yellow metal — in very truth, what are these ? Slick rests no where — he is homeless ! he can build stone or marble houses ; but to continue...which he is loved and blessed by. The herdsman in his clay shealing, where his very cow and dog are friends to him, and not a cataract but carries memories... | |
| Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 Seiten
...which, though it reveres and worships wealth somewhat wrongly now, is yet learning that " the true wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by." Jones, also has his peculiarities — what are men without them ? I have myself seen him walking in... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - 1859 - 326 Seiten
...eye, and let them shine With borrowed light from thee — for they are thine. Barton, TRUE WEALTH. — The wealth of a man is the number of things which...loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. — Carlyle. EFFECTS OF GRACE. — The dispensation of grace is to some little more than a continual... | |
| 1876 - 846 Seiten
...the millions in. his safe failing to yield the satisfaction which he had confidently anticipated. " The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blest by." * One may be rich in this sense and have neither houses nor lands ; and one may be poor... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 Seiten
...work for a Christian." " THE wealth of a man, is the number of things that he loves and blesses ; that he is loved, and blessed by." " THE herdsman in his...shealing, where his very cow and dog are friends to him, not a cataract but carries memories for him, not a mountain but nods old recognition, his life, all... | |
| 1866 - 930 Seiten
...objecto yet survive, Whose greenness can the heart engage And keep the soul alive.11 Carlylc says, " The wealth of a man is the number of things which...loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by." This is as true in age as in youth. The venerable man or woman who by a life of constant kindness and... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1870 - 408 Seiten
...shiploads of white or yellow metal : in very sooth, what are these 1 Slick rests nowhere, he is homeless. He can build stone or marble houses; but to continue...number of things which he loves and blesses, which lie is loved and blessed by! The herdsman in his poor clay shealing, where his very cow and dog are... | |
| Jane Sergeant - 1872 - 270 Seiten
...of his cherished flock had wandered from the fold. If, as Carlyle says, "the wealth of a man is in the number of things which he loves and blesses, — which he is loved and blessed by," — then assuredly his riches had not all taken wing, and vanished from his sight ; neither had they... | |
| 1876 - 1000 Seiten
...soon find himself left all alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. — Johnson. THE wealth of a man is the number of things which...loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. — Carlylt. A BOSTON preacher said : " If any society will take charge of all the cases of poverty... | |
| Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey - 1879 - 466 Seiten
...begun and ended in the same station, and amid the scenes, which have been familiar from infancy : ' The wealth of a man is the number of things which...a cataract but carries memories for him, and not a mountain- top but nods old recognition; his life, all encircled in blessed mother's-arms, is it 'poorer... | |
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