| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 páginas
...Hah ! These men, I think, had a work t The weak thing, weaker than a child, becomes strong one day, if it be a true thing. Puritanism was only despicable,...laughable then ; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now. Puritanism has got weapons and sinews ; it has fire-arms, warnavies ; it has cunning in its ten fingers,... | |
| 1841 - 832 páginas
...Puritanism, and picturesquely describing the embarkation of the Pilgrim Fathers in the Mayflower: — These men, I think, had a work ! The weak thing, weaker than a child, becomes strong one day, if it be a true thing. Puritanism was only despicable, laughable then ; but nobody can manage... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 páginas
...into that waste wilderness, for He also had made that, He was there also as well as here. — Hah! These men, I think, had a work ! The weak thing, weaker than a child, becomes strong one day, if it be a true thing. Puritanism was only despicable, laughable then; but nobody can manage... | |
| William Shaw Russell - 1846 - 450 páginas
...their small means together, hired a ship, the little ship Mayflower, and made ready to set sail. Hah ! These men, I think, had a work. The weak thing, weaker...Puritanism was only despicable, laughable, then ; but no body can manage to laugh at it now. It is one of the strongest things under the sun at present.'... | |
| 1848 - 590 páginas
...true, not the idolatrous way. These men, I think, had a work ! The weak thing becomes strong one day, if it be a true thing. Puritanism was only despicable,...laughable then; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now. Puritanism has got weapons and sinews; it has cunning in its ten fingers, strength in its right arm;... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1848 - 390 páginas
...grace, " deep in unfathomable mines of never-failing skill." " Puritanism," says Thomas Carlyle, " was only despicable, laughable, then ; but nobody...of the strongest things under the sun at present." And how wonderfully its calm strength looms up now before the world, in contrast with the laboring,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 396 páginas
...grace, " deep in unfathomable mines of never-failing skill." " Puritanism," says Thomas Carlyle, " was only despicable, laughable, then ; but nobody...of the strongest things under the sun at present." And how wonderfully its calm strength looms up now before the world, in contrast with the. laboring,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 páginas
...them into that waste wilderness, for He also had made that, He was there also as well as here.—Hah! These men, I think, had a work! The weak thing, weaker than a child, becomes. strong one day,.if it be a true thing. Puritanism was only despicable, laughabte then; but nobody can manage... | |
| William Shaw Russell - 1851 - 188 páginas
...their small means together, hired a ship, the little ship Mayflower, and made ready to set sail. Hah! These men, I think, had a work. The weak thing, weaker...of the strongest things under the sun at present.' "With the following inimitable description of the 25 Mayflower, on approaching the New England coast,... | |
| 1851 - 598 páginas
...years ago, from Delft Haven in Holland. The weak thing, weaker than a child, becomes strong one day, if it be a true thing. Puritanism was only despicable,...laughable, then ; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now. Puritanism has got weapons and sinews ; it has fire-arms, war-navies ; it has cunning in its ten fingers,... | |
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