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... things omitted with any theoretical purpose . — I have written out my notes and my memories with the man still vividly before me , and , as it were , still speaking ; and , I must venture to add , it is a man I can by no means identify ...
... things omitted with any theoretical purpose . — I have written out my notes and my memories with the man still vividly before me , and , as it were , still speaking ; and , I must venture to add , it is a man I can by no means identify ...
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... things in such order or relation as to illustrate any theory of my own . He who spoke his mind through life must so speak on , though he be dead . II . Thomas Carlyle was born on the 4th of Decem- ber , 1795 , at Ecclefechan ...
... things in such order or relation as to illustrate any theory of my own . He who spoke his mind through life must so speak on , though he be dead . II . Thomas Carlyle was born on the 4th of Decem- ber , 1795 , at Ecclefechan ...
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... thing to moulding the age - training his children to do that which he felt a power within him capable of performing , but for which the means - the mechanical means , the verb and pronoun kind of thing - were denied . Such was the ...
... thing to moulding the age - training his children to do that which he felt a power within him capable of performing , but for which the means - the mechanical means , the verb and pronoun kind of thing - were denied . Such was the ...
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... things low and base - all of these severally taking on physiog- nomical expression in word , tone , movement of the head , color of the face , really seemed to bring before us a being whose physical form was purely a trans- parency of ...
... things low and base - all of these severally taking on physiog- nomical expression in word , tone , movement of the head , color of the face , really seemed to bring before us a being whose physical form was purely a trans- parency of ...
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... thing fictitious in books , and sternly forbade us to spend our time over the ' Arabian Nights'- ' those downright lies , ' he called them . He was grimly re- ligious . I remember him going into the kitchen , where some servants were ...
... thing fictitious in books , and sternly forbade us to spend our time over the ' Arabian Nights'- ' those downright lies , ' he called them . He was grimly re- ligious . I remember him going into the kitchen , where some servants were ...
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