 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 468 pages
...immeasurably expanding itself, and will continue to expand itself through all countries and through all times. What are the conquests and expeditions of the whole corporation of captains, from Walter the Pennyless to Napoleon Bonaparte, compared with these ' movable types ' of Johannes Faust ? Truly, it... | |
 | Henry Winsor - 1839 - 250 pages
...immeasurably expanding itself, and will continue to expand itself through all countries and through all times. What are the conquests and expeditions of the whole corporation of captains, from Walter the Pennyless to Napoleon Bonaparte, compared with these ' moveable types' of Johannas Faust? Truly, it... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 200 pages
...been handed down to us with a precision proportionate to the mischief they have done. REV. CC COLTON. Truly it is a mortifying thing for your conqueror...all that he achieved and skilfully piled together will be like his own canvass city of a camp, — this evening loud with life — to-morrow all struck... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 206 pages
...the mischief they have done. REV. CC COLTON. Truly it is a mortifying thing for your conqueror to 68 reflect how perishable is the metal which he hammers...all that he achieved and skilfully piled together will be like his own canvass city of a camp, — this evening loud with life — to-morrow all struck... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 634 pages
...Moloch,' which the world once was, onward to to this quint version, there is a considerable progress. What are the conquests and expeditions of the whole corporation of captains, from Walter the Pennyless to Napoleon Bonaparte, compared with these ' moveable types' of Johannes Faust ? Truly, it... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...are the conquests and expeditions of the whole corporation of captains, from Walter the Penny less to Napoleon Bonaparte, compared with these " movable...Johannes Faust ? Truly, it is a mortifying thing for Tour Conqueror to reflect, how perishable is the metal which he hammers with such violence : how the... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - 1851 - 350 pages
...continue to expand itself through all countries and through all times. What are the conquests and the expeditions of the whole corporation of captains,...Penniless to Napoleon Bonaparte, compared with these moveable types of Johannes Faust ! Truly, it is a mortifying thing for your conqueror to reflect how... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...Walter the Pennyless to Napoleon Bonaparte, compared with these " movable types " of Johannes Faust 1 Truly, it is a mortifying thing for your Conqueror...all that he achieved and skilfully piled together will be but like his own " canvas city " of a camp,— this evening loud with life, to-morrow ail ft... | |
 | 1852 - 448 pages
...Faust? Truly, it is a mortifying thing for your conqneror to reflect how perishable is the metal with which he hammers with such violence ; how the kind...his bloody footprints ; and all that he achieved and skillfully piled together, will be but like his own canvass city of a camp — the evening loud with... | |
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Khan, with his shaggy demons of the wilderness, "passed away like a whirlwind," to be forgotten forever ; and that German artisan has wrought a benefit, which is yet immeasurably expanding itself, and will continue to expand itself through all countries... 
