 | 1837 - 424 Seiten
...flattest-soled, of some half square-foot, insecurely enough ; has to straddle out his legs lest the very winds supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds ! Three quintals...smooth high-way, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." — p. 40. The following paragraph may serve to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 Seiten
...flattest-soled, of some half square' foot, insecurely enough ; has to straddle out his legs, ' lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds ! ' Three quintals...of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Ne' vertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with ' these the granite mountain melts into light... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 328 Seiten
...crushing load for him ; the Steer ' of the meadow tosses him aloft like a waste rag. Ne' vertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools : with ' these...' seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his un' wearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without ' Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 326 Seiten
...meadow tosses him aloft like a waste rag. Ne' vertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools : with 1 these the granite mountain melts into light dust before...' seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his un' wearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without ' Tools ; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 324 Seiten
...flattest-soled, of some half square' foot, insecurely enough ; has to straddle out his legs, ' lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds ! ' Three quintals...' of the meadow tosses him aloft like a waste rag. Ne' vertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools : with ' these the granite mountain melts into light... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 326 Seiten
...flattest soled, of some half square foot, insecurely enough has to straddle out his legs lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds. Three quintals...smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds. No where do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."* Necessity... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 694 Seiten
...flattest soled, of some half square foot, insecurely enough has to straddle out his legs lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds. Three quintals...smooth highway ; winds and fire his unwearying steeds. No where do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."* Necessity... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 Seiten
...test-soled, of some half square-foot, insecurely enough ; has to ' straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest ' of bipeds ! Three quintals...of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Never' theless he can use Tools, can devise Tools : with these the gra' nite mountain melts into light... | |
 | 1847 - 886 Seiten
...insecurely enough ; lias to straddle ou this legs lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds ! — the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste...Nevertheless, he can use tools, can devise tools; with those the granite mountain melts into dust before him ; seas are his smooth highway, and winds and... | |
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Man is a Tool-using Animal (Handthierendes Thier). Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis, at most for the flattest-soled, of some half-square foot, insecurely enough ; has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him.... 
