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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ring tone, and the look truly of an angel, though whether of a white or of a black one might be dubious, proposed this toast: Die Sache der Armen in G... ...ast possible violence to the ear; yet all was tight and right there: hot and black came the coffee ever at the due moment; and the speechless Lieschen... ...inimitable “Extra Harangues;” and, as it chanced, On the Proposal for a Cast metal King: gradually a light kin dled in our Professor’s eyes and face,... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ...hat of practical Reason’ proceeding by large Intuition over whole systematic groups and king doms; whereby, we might say, a noble complexity, almost ... ...terature and Shoeblacking, are realized by actual Instruction and actual jet Polish; what by fictitious persuasive Proclamation of such; specifying, in... ...e eleven eager to learn. By collision with such, a certain warmth, a certain polish was communicated; by instinct and happy accident, I took less to r... ...tual hand grips with Destiny herself, may have comported himself among these Musical and Literary dilettanti of both sexes, like a hungry lion invited... ...n the west ern sunbeams, like a palace of El Dorado, overlaid with precious metal. Beau tiful rose up, in wavy curvature, the slope of thy guardian ...

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