 | Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 Seiten
...as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools : without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark, that this Definition... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 Seiten
...if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools ; without tools he is nothing, with isools he is all." baj Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the tream of oratory with a remark... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 Seiten
...it were soft paste ; ' seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his un' wearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without ' Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is ' all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 326 Seiten
...population; to this end constructiveness seems also intended to lend its aid; not by teaching man how to invent or to construct, but by giving him the desire...intellectual faculties work only for the desires, and work best for the strongest. Utility would have been powerless without the propensity. " Nature... | |
 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1887 - 644 Seiten
...if it were soft paste. Seas are his smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds : nowhere do you find him without tools. Without tools he is nothing ; with tools he is all." When the history of this century is written, tools and the tool maker will not pass unnoticed. When... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 Seiten
...if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, ' winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him ' without Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 Seiten
...if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, ' winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him ' without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 Seiten
...' it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire ' his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools ; ' without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark, that this Definition... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1864 - 426 Seiten
...as if it were soft paste ; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unvarying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools : without tools he is nothing ; with tools he is all." His very first contrivances to support life were tools of the simplest and rudest construction; and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1866 - 138 Seiten
...as if it were soft paste; seas aie his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.' 7 Here may we not, for a moment, interrupt the stream of Oratory with a remark that this Definition... | |
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Three quintals are a crushing load for ' him ; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste ' rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools : with ' these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him ; • he kneads glowing iron,... 
