 Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.  Business - Page 54by James Platt - 1876 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 494 pages
...hands : meanwhile, for my own private behoof, I attempt to elucidate the matter so. Man's TTnhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because...Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY ? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1885 - 490 pages
...fallen into my hands : meanwhile, for my own private behoof, I attempt to elucidate the matter so. Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness...Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY ? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 688 pages
...meanwhile, for my own private ' behoof, I attempt to elucidate the matter so. Man's Unhap' piness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because...and Confectioners of modern ' Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one ' Shoeblack HAPPY ? They cannot accomplish it, above an ' hour or... | |
 | English periodicals - 1886 - 508 pages
...way, and with modifications that Goethe would hardly have accepted. " Man's unhappiness," he says, " as I construe, comes of his greatness ; it is because...his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite," and this, it may be remarked in passing, is the very conviction that Schopenhauer has stated in a more... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - Meditations - 1887 - 252 pages
...And higher than the petty cares of men, And is a blessed life and glorified. EDWIN MOM™. 2 January. Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness...his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite. THOMAS I'AIUALK. Are there not aspirations in each heart After a better, brighter world than this ;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1888 - 316 pages
...so. Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of hisj ' Greatness ; it is because there is an Jnfinite in him, which; ' with all his cunning he cannot, quite...and ' Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock ' company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY ? They cannot ' accomplish it, above an hour or... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Essays - 1888 - 242 pages
...cunning he cannot quite bury under ' the Finite. Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholster1 ers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint'...company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY ? They cannot 1 accomplish it, above an hour or two : for the Shoeblack also ' has a Soul quite other than his Stomach... | |
 | thomas carlyle - 1888
...hands: meanwhile, for my own private behoof, ' I attempt to elucidate the matter so. Man's Unhappino.ss, as I ' construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because there is an In' finite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury ' under the Finite. Will the whole... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - Social sciences - 1890 - 414 pages
...been very graphically put by Carlyle, in his statement about the happiness of the shoe-black :2 — " Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness...Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack happy ? They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - Sociology - 1890 - 420 pages
...put by Carlyle, in his statement about the happiness of the shoe-black :- — " Man's uuhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness ; it is because...Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint-stock company, to make one Shoeblack happy .They cannot accomplish it, above an hour or two :... | |
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