 Besides, it was talk not flowing anywhither like a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe...  The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Page 215Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay, often in logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...from it So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swainped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge... | |
 | 1895 - 844 pages
...lake or sea, terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay, often ln logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world. The caricature from which this is an extract, and by which, probably, Coleridge is best known to the... | |
 | 1852 - 526 pages
...or sea; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim — nay, often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world.J A refined and often sublime mysticism was the cunning of his right hand, the very lock of his... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 362 pages
...lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in tliis tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world. To sit as a... | |
 | Christianity - 1852 - 536 pages
...lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, moat times, you felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocalics,... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pages
...or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim — nay, often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appeal from it." As Carlyle truly remarks, " to sit as a passive bucket and be pumped into, whether... | |
 | 1852 - 532 pages
...lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in lo./ical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refitting to appear from it. So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 268 pages
...lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...sit as a passive bucket and be pumped into, whether 1 Biography, by Hare, pp. xvi.-xxvi. you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 268 pages
...lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...sit as a passive bucket and be pumped into, whether 1 Biography, by Hare, pp. xvi.-xxvi. you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1851 - 594 pages
...lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly...spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world. you consent or not, can in the long-run be exhilarating to no creature ; how eloquent soever the flood... | |
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