 Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the torch of science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards ; how, in these times especially, not only the torch still burns, and...  The Metropolitan - Page 31838Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...Speculation having free course. Editor receives from Professor Teuf elsdrockh his new Work on Clothe*. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture,...still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...CHAP. XL— Tailors 289 CHAP. XII.— Farewell 296 / SARTOR RESARTUS. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture,...still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable rush-lights and sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction,... | |
 | 1838 - 604 pages
...are so different. But we will venture to give a part of the" Preliminary," and will then add a hit of description, such as is not found in descriptive...especially, not only the torch still burns, and perhaps moro fiercely than ever, but innumerable rushlights, and sulphurmatches, kindled thereat, are also... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...Dandiacal Body 283 XI. Tailors 299 XII. Farewell 304 SARTOR RESARTUS. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture,...still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rush-lights, and Sulphurmatches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...Dandiacal Body 214 XI. Tailors . 226 XII. Farewell . . 229 BOOK I, SARTOR RESARTUS, CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture,...still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rust-lights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...Body 314 XI Tailors ... .... . 226 XII Farewell . ' . . . 22f SARTOR RESARTUS, CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture,...years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not onlj the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rust-lights, and Sulphur-matches,... | |
 | English literature - 1848 - 886 pages
...literary clubs without end. ' The torch of science,' says one of the greatest of living writers, ' has now been brandished and borne about, with more...less effect, for five thousand years and upwards, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in nature or art can remain unilluminated;' and, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Great Britain - 1850 - 676 pages
...SARTOR RESARTUS. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and bow the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne...still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rust-lights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...tiirin Sici'iniuljtnii}, nicin ','iiffi' Ift fie Scit. SAETOE EESAETUS. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture,...brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five-thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1862 - 656 pages
...Tailors ... . . 226 XII Farewell . . ?39 SARTOR RESARTUS, J SARTOR RESARTUS, CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture,...still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rust-lights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction,... | |
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