Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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Page 24
... devil , which she mostly belongs to . The matter had better be brought to a crisis . There is perhaps a finger of Provi- dence in it . . . . The secret of the whole matter is froth , and grounds itself in bubbles and unreality . The ...
... devil , which she mostly belongs to . The matter had better be brought to a crisis . There is perhaps a finger of Provi- dence in it . . . . The secret of the whole matter is froth , and grounds itself in bubbles and unreality . The ...
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... devil . Indeed , it often strikes me as strange what an unspeakable composure I have got into about economics and money . It seems to me , I should not mind a jot if hard had come to hard , and they had rouped me out of house and hold ...
... devil . Indeed , it often strikes me as strange what an unspeakable composure I have got into about economics and money . It seems to me , I should not mind a jot if hard had come to hard , and they had rouped me out of house and hold ...
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... Devil , Go your course , friends ; behold , I lie here and rest . ' In fact , with all the despair that is round about me , there is not in myself , I do think , the least desperation . I feel rather as if , quite possibly , I might be ...
... Devil , Go your course , friends ; behold , I lie here and rest . ' In fact , with all the despair that is round about me , there is not in myself , I do think , the least desperation . I feel rather as if , quite possibly , I might be ...
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... Devil and his servants obstruct as they will .. . . The literary craft , as I have often ex- plained to you , seems gone for this generation . I do not see how a man that will not take the Devil into partnership— one of the worst ...
... Devil and his servants obstruct as they will .. . . The literary craft , as I have often ex- plained to you , seems gone for this generation . I do not see how a man that will not take the Devil into partnership— one of the worst ...
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... devil very largely in it . And I too , by the blessing of the Maker of me , I too am authorised and equipped by Heaven's Act of Parliament to do that small secret somewhat , and will do it without any consultation of yours . Let us be ...
... devil very largely in it . And I too , by the blessing of the Maker of me , I too am authorised and equipped by Heaven's Act of Parliament to do that small secret somewhat , and will do it without any consultation of yours . Let us be ...
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