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" All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is not there on its own account ; strictly taken, is not there at all; matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea, and body it forth. "
Life of Thomas Carlyle - Page 68
by Richard Garnett - 1887 - 186 pages
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - Transcendentalism in literature - 1831 - 294 pages
...Smithy- Altar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us ? ' All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is...spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth. Hence Clothes,.as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the King's...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle - 1831 - 288 pages
...high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us ? /' 'All visible jthings_are emblemsj what thou seest is not there on its own account ;...spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth. Hence Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the King's...
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Sartor Resartus: In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...smithyaltar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us ? " All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is...spiritually, and to represent some idea, and body it forth. Hence Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the king's...
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Sartor Resartus; the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...SmithyAltar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us ? ' All visible things are Emblems ; what thou seest is...spiritually, and to represent ' some Idea, and body it forth. Hence Clothes, as ' despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably sig' nificant. Clothes, from the...
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The Living Age, Volume 252

1907 - 848 pages
...safety and the health even of those on whom our own safety depends, even of soldiers, even of children. All visible things are emblems; what thou seest Is...spiritually, and to represent some Idea and body it forth. Hence clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the King's...
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The Living Age, Volume 252

1907 - 850 pages
...and the health even of those on whom our own safety depends, even of soldiers, even of children. AH visible things are emblems; what thou seest Is not...spiritually, and to represent some Idea and body It forth. Hence clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the King's...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...Smithy- Altar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us ? ' All visible things are Emblems ; what thou seest is...spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it ' forth. Hence Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so ' unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the...
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Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus

Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1848 - 654 pages
...Smithy-Altar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us ? ' All visible things are Emblems; what thou seest is...spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it ' forth. Hence Clothes, as despicable as we think them, arc so ' unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the...
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Sartor Resartus (1831): Lectures on Heroes (1840)

Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...Smithy-Altar, what vacant, high-sailing air-ships are these, and whither will they sail with us ? ' All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is...spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it ' forth. Hence Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so ' unspeakably significant. Clothes, from the...
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Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside, Volume 2

1858 - 330 pages
...window, through which solemn vistas are opened into lnfinitude itself." (Vol. II, p. 300.) Again: — "All visible things are emblems — what thou seest...spiritually, and to represent some idea, and body it' forth." (Sart. Resart., p. 71.) The identity of thess views with Swedenborg's, will be obvious to all acquainted...
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