Two men I honor, and no third. First, the toil-worn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand ; crooked, coarse ; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly... An Introduction to the Study of Chaucer - Page 121by Alexander Monfries - 1875 - 139 pagesFull view - About this book
| Fashion - 740 pages
...mission of man on this earth: a day is ever struggling forward," &c. ; and again, that noble piece — " Two men I honour, and no third — first, the toilworn...laboriously conquers the earth and makes her man's" ? From the " Sartor Resartus," " Past and Present," and " Chartism," dozens of such eulogies of labour... | |
| Orville Dewey - Business ethics - 1838 - 312 pages
...decision? Another, in part, shall give'them for me. " Two men," says a quaint writer, " two men I honor, and no third. First, the toil-worn craftsman, that...implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man'.s. Venerable to me is the hard hand ; crooked, coarse ; wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 pages
...cottages. On the blank cover of Heuschrecke's Tract, we find the following indistinctly engrossed : ' Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toilworn...conquers the Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable 1 to me is the hard Hand ; crooked, coarse ; wherein ' notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly... | |
| English periodicals - 1841 - 618 pages
...repressing population, written by his friend the Hofrath Heuschrecke, the Professor writes thus :— " Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toil-worn...laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's * * *. A second man I honour, and still more highly : him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable—not... | |
| American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...population, written by his friend the Hofrath Heuschrecke, the Professor writes thus : Two men I honor, and no third. First, the toil-worn craftsman, that...laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's * * *. A second man I honor, and still more highly : him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable—... | |
| Orville Dewey - Theology - 1844 - 904 pages
...this strange decision ? Another, in part, shall give them for me. " Two men," says a quaint writer, " two men I honour, and no third. First, the toil-worn...; wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indefeasiblv royal, as of the sceptre of this planet. Venerable, too, is the rugged face, all weathertanned,... | |
| 1868
...is subsists;" and, to quote the words of a great writer, whose words are always full of meaning, " Two men I honour, and no third : first, the toilworn...laboriously conquers the earth and makes her man's ; secondly, him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable, the Bread of Life : unspeakably... | |
| Robert M. Hovenden - 1844 - 386 pages
...propriétaires ; j'entends ceux qui pour le dévenir n'ont eu que la peine de naître. IDEM. Two men I honor, and no third. First the toilworn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers tha earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard hand, crooked, coarse ; wherein, notwithstanding,... | |
| 18 pages
...whom, had he always listened, he would have been a better and a happier man. THE DIGNITY OF LABOUH. Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toil-worn...implement laboriously conquers the earth and makes her mans'. Venerable to me is the hard hand; crooked, coarse, wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning... | |
| Women's periodicals, English - 1853 - 386 pages
...mission of man on this earth : a day is ever struggling forward," &c. ; and again, that noble piece — "Two men I honour, and no third— first, the toilworn...laboriously conquers the earth and makes her man's" ? From the " Sartor Resartus," " Past and Present," and " Chartism," dozens of such eulogies of labour... | |
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