Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... never know my life , if it should write and read a hundred bio- graphies of me . The main facts of it even are known , and are likely to be known , to myself alone of created men . The ' goose goddess ' which they call Fame ' ! Ach Gott ...
... never know my life , if it should write and read a hundred bio- graphies of me . The main facts of it even are known , and are likely to be known , to myself alone of created men . The ' goose goddess ' which they call Fame ' ! Ach Gott ...
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... never understood nor will understand me and my poor affairs . Not even the persons nearest to me could guess at them ; nor was it found indispensable ; nor is it now ( for any but an idle purpose ) profitable , were it even possible ...
... never understood nor will understand me and my poor affairs . Not even the persons nearest to me could guess at them ; nor was it found indispensable ; nor is it now ( for any but an idle purpose ) profitable , were it even possible ...
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... never knew of one - whose conduct in life would better bear the fiercest light which can be thrown upon it . In the ... never do less than his very best . He never wrote an idle word , he never wrote or spoke any single sentence ...
... never knew of one - whose conduct in life would better bear the fiercest light which can be thrown upon it . In the ... never do less than his very best . He never wrote an idle word , he never wrote or spoke any single sentence ...
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... never been , there were forces in the universe terrible as the thunders of Sinai or Assyrian armies , which would bring them to their senses or else destroy them . The French Revo- lution was the last and most signal example of God's.
... never been , there were forces in the universe terrible as the thunders of Sinai or Assyrian armies , which would bring them to their senses or else destroy them . The French Revo- lution was the last and most signal example of God's.
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... never made till fact has answered it already False nobles , false priests , once detected , could not be allowed to remain . Unfortunately it did not occur to the French nation that when the false nobles and the false priests were ...
... never made till fact has answered it already False nobles , false priests , once detected , could not be allowed to remain . Unfortunately it did not occur to the French nation that when the false nobles and the false priests were ...
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