Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... natural man ' would have recommended , I should have given no faithful account of Carlyle . I should have created a ' delusion and a hallucination ' of the precise kind which he who was the truest of men most deprecated and dreaded ...
... natural man ' would have recommended , I should have given no faithful account of Carlyle . I should have created a ' delusion and a hallucination ' of the precise kind which he who was the truest of men most deprecated and dreaded ...
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... natures are most apt to do , his impatience , his irritability , his singular melancholy , which made him at ... nature of the man . They have to be told because without them his character cannot be understood , and because they ...
... natures are most apt to do , his impatience , his irritability , his singular melancholy , which made him at ... nature of the man . They have to be told because without them his character cannot be understood , and because they ...
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... nature showed itself in his life and in his words . He acted as he spoke from his heart , and those who have admired his writings will equally admire himself when they see him in his actual likeness . I , for myself , concluded , though ...
... nature showed itself in his life and in his words . He acted as he spoke from his heart , and those who have admired his writings will equally admire himself when they see him in his actual likeness . I , for myself , concluded , though ...
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... nature , who though far from agreeing with Carlyle , though shrinking from and even hating , so impetuous was he , many of Carlyle's opinions , yet saw also that he was a man like none that he had yet fallen in with , a man not only ...
... nature , who though far from agreeing with Carlyle , though shrinking from and even hating , so impetuous was he , many of Carlyle's opinions , yet saw also that he was a man like none that he had yet fallen in with , a man not only ...
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... natural was the supernatural , and the tales of signs and wonders had risen out of the efforts of men to realise ... nature answer them with peace and happiness . Of forms of government , that which was best admini- stered was best ...
... natural was the supernatural , and the tales of signs and wonders had risen out of the efforts of men to realise ... nature answer them with peace and happiness . Of forms of government , that which was best admini- stered was best ...
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