 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1859 - 849 pages
...rises before us, amid contradiction and debate, like a granite mountain amid clouds and wind. Ridicule, of the best that could be commanded, has been already...their cry was seldom even audible. Fichte's opinions may be true or false; but his character, as a thinker, can be slightly valued only by such as know... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pages
...rises before us, amid contradiction and debate, like a granite mountain amid clouds and wind. Ridicule, of the best that could be commanded, has been already...as beetles, and their cry was seldom even audible. Kichte's opinions may be true or false ; but his character, as a thinker, can be slightly valued only... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 510 pages
...thousand wits to him? The cry of a thousand choughs assaulting that old cliff of granite: seen VOL. I. 6 from the summit, these, as they winged the midway...their cry was seldom even audible. Fichte's opinions may be true or false; but his character, as a thinker, can be slightly valued only by such as know... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1867 - 692 pages
...rises before us amid contradiction and debate like a granite mountain amid clouds and winds. Ridicule of the best that could be commanded has been already...their cry was seldom even audible. Fichte's opinions may be true or false ; but his character as a thinker can be slightly valued only by those who know... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1871 - 798 pages
...rises before us amid contradiction and debate like a granite mountain amid clouds and winds. Ridicule of the best that could be commanded has been already...midway air, showed scarce so gross as beetles, and 'hi ir cry was seldom even audible. Fichte's opinions may be true or false ; but his character as a... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 pages
...contradiction ani debate, like a granite mountain amid clouili and wind. Ridicule, of the best that could : commanded, has been already tried against him; but it could not avail. What was thf wit of a thousand wits to him 1 The cry of a thousand choughs assaulting that old cliff of granite... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 366 pages
...debate like a granite mountain amid clouds and winds. Ridicule of the best that could be commanded had been already tried against him ; but it . could not...of granite ; seen from the summit, these, as they 1 The 'Doctrine of Religion,' translated by Dr. W. Smith, in 'Fichte'i Works,' pp. 459, 460. winged... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre - 1879 - 364 pages
...debate like a granite mountain amid clouds and winds. Ridicule of the best that could be commanded had been already tried against him ; but it could not...of granite ; seen from the summit, these, as they 1 The 'Doctrine of Religion,' translated by Dr. W. Smith, in 'Fichte's Works,' pp. 459, 460. winged... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1881 - 158 pages
...rises before us, amid contradiction and debate, like a granite mountain amid clouds and wind. Ridicule, of the best that could be commanded, has been already...beetles, and their cry was seldom even audible." Fichte's philosophy took its departure from Kant's Practical Reason, and it is in the immediate and absolute... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 516 pages
...rises before us, amid contradiction and debate, like a granite mountain amid clouds and wind. Ridicule, of the best that could be commanded, has been already...their cry was seldom even audible. Fichte's opinions may be true or false ; but his character, as a thinker, can be slightly valued only by such as know... | |
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Ridicule, of the best that could be commanded, has been already tried against him ; but it could not avail. What was the wit of a thousand wits to him ? The cry of a thousand choughs assaulting that old cliff of granite : seen from the summit, these,... 
