Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... strange wild animal . His conver- sational powers were extraordinary . His unsparing veracity , his singular insight , struck everyone who came in contact with him , but were more startling than agreeable . He was unobtrusive , but when ...
... strange wild animal . His conver- sational powers were extraordinary . His unsparing veracity , his singular insight , struck everyone who came in contact with him , but were more startling than agreeable . He was unobtrusive , but when ...
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... strange rude country ; a horrid dream , the pain- fullest too is when you wake first . But on the whole should I not thank the Unseen ? For I was not driven out of com- posure , hardly for moments . Walk humbly with thy God . ' How I ...
... strange rude country ; a horrid dream , the pain- fullest too is when you wake first . But on the whole should I not thank the Unseen ? For I was not driven out of com- posure , hardly for moments . Walk humbly with thy God . ' How I ...
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... strange dreams haunting me . However , I was not without good thoughts too , that came like healing life into me ; and I got it somewhat reasonably crushed down . . . . I have got back my spirits , and hope I shall go on tolerably ...
... strange dreams haunting me . However , I was not without good thoughts too , that came like healing life into me ; and I got it somewhat reasonably crushed down . . . . I have got back my spirits , and hope I shall go on tolerably ...
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... 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 , and the very shirt off my back . I ...
... 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 , and the very shirt off my back . I ...
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... strange audience with considerable audacity ; perhaps it were the making of me to learn to speak . I really in some moods feel no kind of tendency to whimper or even to gloom . God's world , ruled over by the Prince of the Power of the ...
... strange audience with considerable audacity ; perhaps it were the making of me to learn to speak . I really in some moods feel no kind of tendency to whimper or even to gloom . God's world , ruled over by the Prince of the Power of the ...
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