Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... knew to be expected from me . Had I considered my own com- fort or my own interest , I should have sifted out or passed lightly over the delicate features in the story . It would have been as easy as it would have been agreeable for me ...
... knew to be expected from me . Had I considered my own com- fort or my own interest , I should have sifted out or passed lightly over the delicate features in the story . It would have been as easy as it would have been agreeable for me ...
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... knew them is gone , there is no more tenderness in dealing with them ; and if their friends have been indiscreetly reserved , idle tales which sur- vive in tradition become stereotyped into facts . Thus the characters of many of our ...
... knew them is gone , there is no more tenderness in dealing with them ; and if their friends have been indiscreetly reserved , idle tales which sur- vive in tradition become stereotyped into facts . Thus the characters of many of our ...
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... knew to be my duty as a biographer . I should have been unjust secondly to the public . Carlyle exerted for many years an almost unbounded influence on the mind of educated England . His writings are now spread over the whole English ...
... knew to be my duty as a biographer . I should have been unjust secondly to the public . Carlyle exerted for many years an almost unbounded influence on the mind of educated England . His writings are now spread over the whole English ...
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... knew of one - whose conduct in life would better bear the fiercest light which can be thrown upon it . In the grave matters of the law he walked for eighty - five years unblemished by a single moral spot . There are no ' sins of youth ...
... knew of one - whose conduct in life would better bear the fiercest light which can be thrown upon it . In the grave matters of the law he walked for eighty - five years unblemished by a single moral spot . There are no ' sins of youth ...
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... knew too much to believe in the dreams of the Radicals of politics . In them lay revolution , feasts of reason , and a reign of terror . Goethe had taught him the meaning and the worth of the apostles of freedom . They might de- stroy ...
... knew too much to believe in the dreams of the Radicals of politics . In them lay revolution , feasts of reason , and a reign of terror . Goethe had taught him the meaning and the worth of the apostles of freedom . They might de- stroy ...
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