 | 1829 - 436 หน้า
...plant their monstrous wives in opera boxes ? CHARACTER OF THE AGE. WERE we required to characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an heroica!, devotional, philosophical, or moral age, but, above all others, the mechanical age. It is... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 หน้า
...lime; and, by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us then, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance,...it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Mora\ Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Âge. It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward... | |
 | 1835 - 916 หน้า
...time; and, by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us then, ay" EF C ^ :_ 4 *1 rZ V: 8 &lgI ѭ\ ( :V Ǵ }:... yd `]Ӽnџ} [ G i) W : G+ ԩ# a 4 Fg y- SS̞ notan Heroica), Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 หน้า
...Mr. Carlyle ? We might fill pages with quotations all full of such language as the following : — ' Were we required to characterise this age of ours,...or moral age, but above all others, the mechanical •gelt is the age of machinery in every outward and inward sense of the word.1 — Miscellan. vol.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 หน้า
...Mr. Carlyle? We might fill pages with quotations all full of such language as the following : — • Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single VOL. LXVI. NO. cxxxu. 2 H epithet, epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an heroical, devotional,... | |
 | 432 หน้า
...charred timbers of the ill-fated transport. CHARACTER OP THE AGE. WBBE wo required to characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an heroioal, devotional, philosophical, or moral age, but, above all others, the mechanical age. It is... | |
 | 1873 - 442 หน้า
...soon, the sooner they will enter upon their inheritance. — The Prophetic Times. The Age of Mechanism. WERE we required to characterise this age of ours...Age, but, above all others, the MECHANICAL AGE.* It * Edward Irving called it " this metallic age." is the Age of Machinery in every outward and inward... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 หน้า
...it, our own true aims and vours in it, may also become clearer. , Were we required to characleri2e this age of ours by any single epithet, we should...Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above al others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of* Machinery, in every outward and inward sens^ of that... | |
 | John Baillie - 1878 - 462 หน้า
...Carlyle once remarked, that, if he were required to characterise this age of ours by a single epithet, he should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional,...but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. 'It is,' he sarcastically added, ' the age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word.' Our... | |
 | Hector C. Macpherson - 1897 - 172 หน้า
...civilisation. The intense Egoism of his nature rebels against any kind of Socialism or Collectivism. He says: ' Were we required to characterise this age of ours...single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not a Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Heroic Age, but, above all, the Mechanical Age. It is the... | |
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Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. 
