Selections from CarlyleAllyn & Bacon, 1895 - 283 pages |
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... still a fair problem for literary historians ; and repeated attempts will give us repeated approximations . His former Biographers have done something , no doubt , but by no means a great deal , to assist 2 Selections from Carlyle .
... still a fair problem for literary historians ; and repeated attempts will give us repeated approximations . His former Biographers have done something , no doubt , but by no means a great deal , to assist 2 Selections from Carlyle .
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... Doubts , which it required quite another set of conjurors than these men to exorcise . We do not say that such an intellect as his could have escaped similar doubts at some period of his history ; or even that he could , at a later ...
... Doubts , which it required quite another set of conjurors than these men to exorcise . We do not say that such an intellect as his could have escaped similar doubts at some period of his history ; or even that he could , at a later ...
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... doubts whether direct pecuniary help , had it been offered , would have been accepted , or could have proved very effectual . We shall readily admit , however , that much was to be done for Burns ; that many a poisoned arrow might have ...
... doubts whether direct pecuniary help , had it been offered , would have been accepted , or could have proved very effectual . We shall readily admit , however , that much was to be done for Burns ; that many a poisoned arrow might have ...
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... doubt . His religion , at best , is an anxious wish ; like that of Rabelais , a great Perhaps . ' He loved Poetry warmly , and in his heart ; could he but have loved it purely , and with his whole undivided heart , it had been well ...
... doubt . His religion , at best , is an anxious wish ; like that of Rabelais , a great Perhaps . ' He loved Poetry warmly , and in his heart ; could he but have loved it purely , and with his whole undivided heart , it had been well ...
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... doubt , is in readiness for such omission ; and , indeed , for innumerable other failings ; -as where , for ex- ample , the Editor will punctually explain what is already sun - clear ; and then anon , not without frankness , declare ...
... doubt , is in readiness for such omission ; and , indeed , for innumerable other failings ; -as where , for ex- ample , the Editor will punctually explain what is already sun - clear ; and then anon , not without frankness , declare ...
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