| King's Marden - 1881 - 408 páginas
...night-skies. And this was the message which came to Andrew Norman as he gazed at their serene light — "There is in man a higher than love of happiness;...happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." CHAPTER X. "Then tell me how to woo thee, Love ; O tell me how to woo thee ! For thy dear sake, nae... | |
| Lizzie Doten - 1882 - 266 páginas
...only with Renunciation, that life, properly speaking, can be Baid to begin." " Light dawns upon me ! There Is in man a HIGHER than love of Happiness ;...can do without happiness, and instead thereof find Elessedness." — THOS. CARLYLE. 0 GOD of the Eagle and Lion! Thy strength to my being impart; Not... | |
| Joseph Henry Allen - 1883 - 350 páginas
...creed was quite the opposite. In the splendid paradox of Carlyle, "There is in man a higher than the love of happiness. He can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness ! " to speak here of what is doing, or what may be done, to build religion up again on the new foundations.*... | |
| 1883 - 654 páginas
...when this is once recognized, nature does give us God : ' Es leuchtel mir ein, I see a glimpse of it ! there is in man a HIGHER than love of happiness :...and instead thereof find Blessedness ! Was it not to preach-forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 páginas
...ere long its sacred gates would open, and the " Divine Depth of Sorrow " lie disclosed to me. . . . There is in man a Higher than Love of Happiness :...without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness. . . . Which God-inspired Doctrine art thou also honored to be taught, O heavens! and broken with manifold... | |
| John Burroughs - 1884 - 314 páginas
...He makes peace with nothing, takes refuge in nothing. He flouts at happiness, at repose, at joy. " There is in man a higher than love of happiness ;...happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." "The life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime sadness — earnestness of infinite battle... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 394 páginas
...unlimited power to the means of preservation, of grace and growth, at every man's command. J. II. THOM THERE is in man a higher than love of happiness :...without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness ! For this shall every one that is godly pray unfa Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found : surely... | |
| 1884 - 662 páginas
...she would have suited better to have toiled through life with the man who had cried with Goethe, " There is in man a Higher than Love of Happiness; he...Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness." It was in pursuit of this God-inspired doctrine that Carlyle overlooked the little things that make... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 688 páginas
...dolefully because carrion enough is not given ' thee ? Close thy Byrnn ; open thy Goethe.' 'Es leuchtet mir ein, I see a glimpse of it ! ' cries he elsewhere...can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Bless' edness ! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that ' sages and martyrs, the Poet and... | |
| William Leslie Davidson - 1885 - 388 páginas
...Yea ": Bk. II., c. ix.), which perhaps will bear quoting once more. " There is in man," says he, " a Higher than love of Happiness : he can do without...find Blessedness ! Was it not to preach forth this Higher that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered ; bearing... | |
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