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" To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. "
Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century - Page 355
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Sartor Resartus: In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...and disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the universe was all void of life, of purpose, of...its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. 0 the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and mill of death ! Why was the living banished thither companionless,...
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Sartor Resartus; the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...Disbelief, ' the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so ' much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was ' all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hosti' lity : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable, Steam-engine, ' rolling on, in its dead indifference,...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 326 pages
...in a Devil. To me the Universe was 1 all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hosti* lity: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable, Steam-engine,...Living banished thither < companionless, conscious t Why if there is no Devil ; * nay, unless the Devil is your God ? ' A prey incessantly to such corrosions,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 66

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1840 - 658 pages
...me the universe was all void of life, or purpose, of volition, even of hos tility : it was one huye, dead, immeasurable steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. 0 the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha and mill of death ! Why was the living banished, thither companionless,...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...Disbelief, ' the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so ' much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was ' all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hosti4 lity : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable, Steam-engine, ' rolling on, in its dead indifference,...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled ' down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the ' Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of...the Living banished thither companionless, conscious 1 ' Why if there is no Devil ; nay, unless the Devil is your God ?' A prey incessantly to such corrosions,...
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Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled ' down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the ' Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of...the Living banished thither companionless, conscious 1 ' Why if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God ?' A prey incessantly to such corrosions,...
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Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 676 pages
...and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled ' down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the ' Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of...it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, t ' rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. ' 0 the vast, gloomy, solitary...
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Sartor Resartus (1831): Lectures on Heroes (1840)

Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...Disbelief, the very Devil has ' been pulled-down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To ' me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of...of Hostility : it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam' engine, rolling-on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from ' limb. O the vast, gloomy,...
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Dark sayings on a harp; and other sermons

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1865 - 454 pages
...belief, the very devil has been pulled down. You SERMON cannot so much as believe in a devil. To me _' the universe was all void of life, of purpose, of...one huge, dead, immeasurable steam-engine rolling on its dead indifference to grind me limb from limb. O the vast gloomy solitary Golgotha and mill of death...
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