 It is not because of his toils that I lament for the poor. We must all toil or steal, (howsoever we name our stealing,) which is worse. No faithful workman finds his task a pastime. The poor is hungry and athirst ; but for him also there is food and drink...  Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion - Page 198by Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1840 - 468 pages
...same faculties which he has, and were therefore just as likely to err. •&• IX. * It is not hecause of his toils that I lament for the poor ; we must...stealing), which is worse ; no faithful workman finds his work a pastime. But what I do mourn over is that the lamp of his soul should go out ; that no ray of... | |
 | American literature - 1840 - 532 pages
...institutions, should place one human being in a position, where ignorance is almost a necessity 1 " 'T is not because of his toils that I lament for the poor. We must all toil, or steal, (however we name our stealing,) which is worse. No faithful workman finds his task a pastime. The poor... | |
 | George Moody - Education - 1843 - 444 pages
...labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?—Milton. II. It is not because of his toils that I lament for the...stealing), which is worse; no faithful workman finds his work a pastime. But what I do mourn over is, that the lamp of his soul should go out; that no ray of... | |
 | 1843 - 948 pages
...labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? — Milton. II. It is not because of his toils that I lament for the poor ; we must all toQ or steal (howsoever we name our stealing), which is worse; no faithful workman finds his work a... | |
 | Robert M. Hovenden - 1844 - 386 pages
...depths of earth, like a light shining in great darkness. And again ; it is not because of his toil that I lament for the poor ; we must all toil or steal, (however we name our stealing,) which is worse ; no faithful workman finds his task a pastime. The... | |
 | Abiel Abbot LIVERMORE - 1847 - 172 pages
...at night is more refreshing than if he slept on beds of Gothland down. In the language of Carlyle, " We must all toil, or steal, (howsoever we name our...athirst, but for him also there is food and drink ; he is heavy laden and weary, but for him also the heavens send sleep, and of the deepest. In his smoky cribs,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...forth from the humblest depths of Earth, like a light shining u. ' great darkness ' . And again: ' It is not because of his toils that I lament for '...poor: we must all toil, or steal (howsoever we name oat ' stealing), which is worse ; no faithful workman finds his task a ' pastime. The poor is hungry... | |
 | Parapsychology - 1848 - 424 pages
...spring forth from the umblest depths of Earth, like a light shining in great' darknes?. And again: it is not because of his toils that I lament for the joor ; we must all toil, or steal, (howsoever we name our stealng.) which is worse ; no faithful workman... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...' forth from the humblest depths of Earth, like a light shining in ' great darkness.' And again : ' It is not because of his toils that I lament for the...pastime. ' The poor is hungry and athirst ; but for bim also there is food 4 and drink : he is heavy-laden and weary ; but for him also the ' Heavens send... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...itself; thou wilt see the splendor of heaveu spring forth from the humblest depths of earth, like a shining in great darkness. It is not because of his...athirst, but for him also there is food and drink; he is heavy laden and weary, but for him also the heavens send sleep, and of the deepest. In his smoky cribs,... | |
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