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" ... Fire!" is given: and they blow the souls out of one another: and in place of sixty brisk, useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest!... "
Annual Record of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachussets - Page 152
by Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887
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Wellman's Miscellany, Volumes 5-7

1872 - 320 pages
...ai.y qutrrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers : nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still...
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The Crown of Wild Olive: Four Letters on Industry and War

John Ruskin - England - 1873 - 228 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' — Sartor Resartus. too. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: The ...

John Ruskin - 1873 - 228 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' — Sartor Resartus. 100. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 6

John Ruskin - English literature - 1873 - 232 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' — Sartor Resartus. 100. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle...
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The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War

John Ruskin - Prussia (Germany) - 1874 - 164 pages
...any quarrel ? Easy as the devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a universe, there was even,...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' (Sartor Eesartus.) *• Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle...
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The Carlyle Anthology

Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...any quarrel ' Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen-out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot....
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Thomas Carlyle: His Life, His Books, His Theories

Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. — Alas, so is it in Deutsohland, and hitherto in all other lands ; still...
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Thomas Carlyle: His Life, His Books, His Theories

Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual help fulness between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen out ; and instead of shooting...
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The Philosophy of Carlyle

Edwin Doak Mead - 1881 - 158 pages
...quarrel ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entires! strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." It is not conservatism nor anything insular that writes to Goethe : "...
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The Carlyle Anthology: Selected and Arranged

Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...any quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart ; were the entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen-out ; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot....
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