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
| Religion - 1889 - 708 pages
...was evermore trying to rise again. Listen to that fierce censor of humanity, Thomas Carlyle : — " 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... | |
| Ivan Panin - Authors, Russian - 1889 - 242 pages
...of the soul's well-nigh noblest emotion, — Repentance. " 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... | |
| Robert Ethol Welsh, Frederick George Edwards - Bible - 1889 - 372 pages
...warm only to sting him the more. " I said, I will confess." " Faults !" says Carlyle in his Heroes, "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... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. FAULTS — see Friendship, Humility, Quarrels, Superiority. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 1538 Carlyle : Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as Prophet. All his faults are such that one loves... | |
| 1890 - 828 pages
...they have not experienced these, they have never met true happiness. Reader, have you? THE STILL HOUR. THE greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.— Carlyle. THE greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolutions. — Seneca.... | |
| Bible - 1892 - 656 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 the Bible, above all, one would think might know better. Who is called there the man according to God's own heart ? David, the Hebrew king, had fallen... | |
| William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 pages
...Nature ; and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Carlyle varies the phrase : "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Heroes and Hero- Worship: The Hero as a Prophet.) Sir Robert Peel, speaking of Lord Hldon, remarked... | |
| William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...Nature; and you'll draw A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw. Carlyle varies the phrase : " The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Heroes and Hero- Worship : The Hero as a Prophet.) Sir Robert Peel, speaking of Lord Eldon, remarked... | |
| Noah Knowles Davis - Bible - 1895 - 364 pages
...by being an indulgent critic of sacred characters. Yet hear him in this case: " Faults," says he, " 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... | |
| Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Horace ; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. v. BYRON— Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 77. Sc. 3. L. 287. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded w. CARLYLE — Heroes and Hero- Worship. Ch. II. Men still had faults, and men will have them still... | |
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