 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pagine
...dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty,...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 pagine
...dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty,...martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart oi man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns-up all lower considerations.... | |
 | William Delafield Arnold - 1853 - 314 pagine
...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...the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations ; not happiness but something higher. One sees this even in the frivolous... | |
 | William Delafield Arnold - 1854 - 310 pagine
...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...the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations ; not happiness but something higher. One sees this even in the frivolous... | |
 | 1855 - 864 pagine
...son of Adam dimly longs. Shew him the way of doing that, the dullest day drudge kindles into a hero. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations." Hence close observers have remarked what different men officers... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pagine
...dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty,...even in the frivolous classes, with their ' point of honour' and the like. Not by flattering our appetites ; no, by awakening the Heroic that slumbers in... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 pagine
...dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty,...the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. Not happiness, but something higher : one sees this even in the... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pagine
...dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that^ the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. 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 pagine
...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 ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, and you have a flame... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 pagine
...dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty,...even in the frivolous classes, with their ' point of honour' and the like. Not by flattering our appetites ; no, by awakening the Heroic that slumbers in... | |
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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 daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong... 
