Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Platt's Essays - Page 123by James Platt - 1883Full view - About this book
| Thomas Carlyle - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...fallen into my hands : meanwhile, for my own private behoof, 1 attempt to elucidate the matter so. Man's Unhappiness as I construe, comes of his Greatness...Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY ? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...fallen into my hands ; meanwhile, for my own private behoof, I attempt to elucidate the matter so : Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness...cannot quite bury under the Finite. Will the whole financeministers and upholsterers and confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 326 pages
...elucidate the matter so. Man's Unhappi* ness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is be' cause there is an Infinite in him, which with all his *...joint* stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY? They 18 ' cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two ; for the ' Shoeblack also has a Soul quite other than... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...elucidate the matter so. Man's Unhappi' ness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is be* cause there is an Infinite in him, which with all his '...' the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and 4 Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint' stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY 1... | |
| 1840 - 448 pages
...thither; and ere long its sacred gates would open, and the ' divine depth of Sorrow* lie disclosed to me. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infmite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite. Will the whole finance... | |
| Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Apologetics - 1842 - 192 pages
...entire satisfaction, nothing which fills his mind. " Man's unhappiness," in the words of another, " comes of his greatness; it is because there is an...his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite." But the idea of Infinity presupposes the endless duration of the being who has it. "Nature," as one... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...fallen into my hands : meanwhile, ' for my own private behoof, I attempt to elucidate the matter so. Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness...Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY ? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 260 pages
...h4ft-4rrsntnfrir; it is ' bccajjsejhoEJLisjin Infinite in him, which with all his cunning ' hc_canno-t quite bury under the Finite. Will the whole Finance...and Confectioners of modern Europe ' undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack ' HATTY ? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...fallen into my hands : meanwhile, ' for my own private behoof, I attempt to elucidate the matter so. ' Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness;...and Confectioners of modern Europe ' undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack ' HAPPY ? They cannot accomplish* it, above an hour or two... | |
| Truth-seeker and present age - 1849 - 540 pages
...find their appointed answer in Fiction. It has been quaintly but significantly asked by Carlyle : ' Will the whole Finance Ministers, and Upholsterers,...and Confectioners of modern Europe, undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one shoeblack happy? They cannot accomplish it above an hour or two. '... | |
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