Citations:overseership

English citations of overseership

• 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. I, Phenomena

  O, it is frightful when a whole Nation, as our Fathers used to say, has ‘forgotten God’; has remembered only Mammon, and what Mammon leads to! When your self-trumpeting Hatmaker is the emblem of almost all makers, and workers, and men, that make anything, — from soul-overseerships, body-overseerships, epic poems, acts of parliament, to hats and shoe-blacking!