Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881, Issue 25, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1885 |
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... write Carlyle's life ? ' The word reported to me set me thinking how impossible it was , and would for ever remain , for any creature to write my life . ' The chief elements of my little destiny have all along lain deep below view or ...
... write Carlyle's life ? ' The word reported to me set me thinking how impossible it was , and would for ever remain , for any creature to write my life . ' The chief elements of my little destiny have all along lain deep below view or ...
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... write , it will be mere delusion and hallucination . The confused world 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 ...
... write , it will be mere delusion and hallucination . The confused world 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 ...
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... he was to live . His immediate duty was to write down his convictions on this the greatest of all human problems , and the history of the French Revolu- III . с tion ' was the shape in which these convictions crystallised 74.
... he was to live . His immediate duty was to write down his convictions on this the greatest of all human problems , and the history of the French Revolu- III . с tion ' was the shape in which these convictions crystallised 74.
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... write . Write then and complain . of nothing — defy all things . The book announced yesterday . HIS BROTHER JOHN . 21 Would that I were further 20 CARLYLE'S LIFE IN LONDON .
... write . Write then and complain . of nothing — defy all things . The book announced yesterday . HIS BROTHER JOHN . 21 Would that I were further 20 CARLYLE'S LIFE IN LONDON .
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... write articles for them ( with my heart's blood , as you sympathetically say ) for perhaps six months - then a total cessation . Though I my- self were able to write articles for ever , that is nothing . They are off after any new thing ...
... write articles for them ( with my heart's blood , as you sympathetically say ) for perhaps six months - then a total cessation . Though I my- self were able to write articles for ever , that is nothing . They are off after any new thing ...
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