 Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there ' the man according to God's own heart'?  The Saturday Magazine - Page 1121841Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1866 - 232 pages
...even, of Mahomet, if such were never so well proved against him, shake this primary fact about him. On the whole, we make too much of faults ; the details...of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults 1 The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1869 - 328 pages
...even, of Mahomet, if such were never so well proved against him, shake this primary fact about him. On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details...faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there ' the man according... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1871 - 408 pages
...even, of Mahomet, if such were never so well proved against him, shake this primary fact about him. On the whole, we make too much of faults ; the details of tha business hide the real centre of it. Faults? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious... | |
 | David Kay - 1873 - 242 pages
...force and full-pulsing vitality." — ( JOHN MORLEY.) " On the whole, we make too much of faults. . . . Faults ? The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none. Eeaders of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there ' The man according... | |
 | 1875 - 154 pages
...partiality for Old Testament worthies, yet hear what he says : "On the whole we make too much of faults. Faults! The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible, abo.ve all, one would think, might know better. Who is there called ' the man... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...profound moral lessons he has read to his fellow-men. — Charles Cowden Clarke. CARLYLE ON KING DAVID. ON the whole we make too much of faults ; the details...faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible, above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there "the man according... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...Thomas and Mr. John had Christian bowels, and did not push him to extremities! — M. Burm. FAULTS. ON the whole, we make too much of faults ; the details...faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there ' the man according... | |
 | William Taylor - 1876 - 464 pages
...— I mean Thomas Carlyle. " Faults !" says this author, in his " Lecture on the Hero as Prophet ;" " the greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible, above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there the man according... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...his "Heroes and HeroWorship : " IMPERFECTIONS AND FAULTS. " On the whole, we make too much of faults. Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there ' the man according... | |
 | Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...Thomas and Mr. John had Christian bowels, and did not push him to extremities ! — M. Burns. FAULTS. ON the whole, we make too much of faults ; the details...faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Readers of the Bible above all, one would think, might know better. Who is called there ' the man according... | |
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