...The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Lif... ...The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of Jo... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Thi... ...LECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Porta... ...nces of mere costume and dialect still divide him, what- soever is worthy, catholic and perennial in him, from a brother soul who, more than most in h... ...tters of Vetus treated of I do not know; doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for... ...had died away into a godless mechanical condition; and stood there as mere Cases of Articles, mere Forms of Churches; like the dried carcasses of once... ...he last ounce which broke the camel’s back. I take it, in this as in other cases known to me, ill-health was not the primary cause but rather the ulti... ... so far as rapid lively intellect produces wit, he had plenty, and did not abuse his endowment that way, being always fundamentally serious in the pur...

...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On He... ...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, H... ... SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ... PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ... he will sign and, in words or otherwise, assert; not this wholly, in many cases not this at all. We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain t... ...o this mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest. Th... ...ling character of Dante’s genius. Dante does not come before us as a large catholic mind; rather as a narrow, and even sectarian mind: it is partly th... ...l fact in men’s life. And remark here, as rather curious, that Middle- Age Catholicism was abolished, so far as Acts of Parliament could abolish it, b... ...ceivable enough that, in this case, he might have held his peace about the abuses of Rome; left Providence, and God on high, to deal with them! A mode...

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