| Charles Buxton - History - 1860 - 130 pages
...the wisdom of Carlyle's expectation, that the West Indies will some day be saved by a population of " true splinters of the old Harz rock, heroic white men, worthy to be called old Saxons "*), they are often known to act the part of guardian angels. They will work for them, feed them, clothe... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1864 - 318 pages
...they were made for: beautiful souls and brave; sages, poets, what not; making the Earth nobler round them, as their kindred from of old have been doing...of many thousand British men had to be laid. Brave Colonel Fortescue, brave Colonel Sedgwiek, brave Colonel Brayne, — the dust of many thousand strong... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 pages
...were made for : beautiful souls and brave ; sages, poets, what not ; making the Earth nobler round them, as their kindred from of old have been doing...of many thousand British men had to be laid. Brave Colonel Fortescue, brave Colonel Sedgwick, brave Colonel Brayne, — the dust of many thousand strong... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 450 pages
...were made for : beautiful souls and brave ; sages, poets, what not ; making the Earth nobler round them, as their kindred from of old have been doing; true " splinters of the old Harz Eock ;" heroic white men, worthy to be called old Saxons, browned with a mahogany tint in those new... | |
| United States - 1866 - 808 pages
...nobler round them, as their kindred from old have been doing ; true " splinters of the old 1 1 :ii /. Rock ;" heroic white men, worthy to be called old...of many thousand British men had to be laid. Brave Colonel Fortescue, brave Colonel Sedgwick, brave Colonel Brayne — the dust of many thousand strong... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...sink, in mortal agony, before the jungles, the putrescences, and waste savageries could become arable ! Under the soil of Jamaica, before it could even produce...bones of many thousand British men had to be laid ; the dust of many thousand strong old English hearts lies there; worn down swiftly in frightful travail,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...were made for : beautiful souls and brave ; sages, poets, what not ; making the Earth nobler round them, as their kindred from of old have been doing;...of many thousand British men had to be laid. Brave Colonel Fortescue, brave Colonel Sedgwick, brave Colonel Brayne, — the dust of many thousand strong... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 286 pages
...were made for : beautiful souls and brave ; sages, poets, what not ; making the Earth nobler round them, as their kindred from of old have been doing ; true " splinters of the old Harz Rock ;" heroic - Vhite men, worthy to be called old Saxons, browned with a mahogany tint in those new climates and... | |
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