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" Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest? "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 299
1860
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 294 pages
...as my sole rational companion ; and regret to mention that the nourishment it yielded was trifling.' Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh ! How could it else ? Hadst...Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest ? ' How I lived ? ' writes he once : ' Friend, hast thou considered the " rugged all-nourishing Earth,"...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 21

1837 - 424 pages
...but is all in pieces, like the rest of its author's works, and unhappily like his own life also. " Hadst thou . not Greek enough to understand thus much...action, and not a thought,' though it were the noblest ? " affections, and almost wild with generous aspirations after the broadest truth and the highest...
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Sartor Resartus: In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...my sole, rational companion ; and regret U> mention that the nourishment it yielded was trifling." Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh ! How could it else ? Hadst...understand thus much : The end of man is an action^ cold not a thought* though it were the noblest ? " How I lived ?" writes he once : " Friend, hast thou...
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Sartor Resartus; the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...my sole rational companion; and regret to ' mention that the nourishment it yielded was trifling.' Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh ! How could it else ? Hadst...Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest ? ' How I lived ? ' writes he once : ' Friend, hast thou ' considered the " rugged all-nourishing Earth,"...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 324 pages
...mention that the nourishment it yielded was trifling." Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh ! How could it else 1 Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much...Action, and not a Thought , though it were the noblest ? ' How I lived 1 ' writes he once : ' Friend, hast thou ' considered the " rugged all-nourishing Earth,"...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...my sole rational companion ; and regret to ' mention that the nourishment it yielded was trifling.' Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh ! How could it else? Hadst...thou not Greek enough to understand thus much : The etui of Man is an Action, and not a Thought^ though it were the noblest 1 ' How I lived ? ' writes...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 260 pages
...sole rational com' panion ; and regret to mention that the nourishment it yielded ' was trifling.' Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh ! How could it else? Hadst...not Greek enough to understand thus much: The end. ofLJjfan is an Afitini. and nof a. T^Wf^'fi tj|" uirh it were the noblest?., ' How I lived ?' writes...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 pages
...sole rational coin' panion ; and regret to mention that the nourishment it yielded ' was trifling.' Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh ! How could it else/ Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much : Tht end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest ? ' How I lived?' writes...
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Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 pages
...sole rational com: panion ; and regret to mention that the nourishment it yielded ' was trifling.' Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh! How could it else? Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much: Tht end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest ? ' How I lived ?' writes...
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Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 2

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...angels only have a right to be spectators. Contemplation and action ought ever to be united." Hadstthou not Greek enough to understand thus much : The end...man is an action and not a thought, though it were of the noblest. Garlyle. There is always a counterpoise in great minds between the desire of action...
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