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... worth and intelligence at work for a long time . The vein runs on , as it were , beneath the surface for a generation or so , then bursts into the light in some man of genius , and oftenest that seems to be the end of it . " Carlyle was ...
... worth and intelligence at work for a long time . The vein runs on , as it were , beneath the surface for a generation or so , then bursts into the light in some man of genius , and oftenest that seems to be the end of it . " Carlyle was ...
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... worth extracting than those we have cited . But it is too late now to change our selections , and we can still less afford to add to them . On the whole , we close the book with some feeling of mollification towards its faults , and a ...
... worth extracting than those we have cited . But it is too late now to change our selections , and we can still less afford to add to them . On the whole , we close the book with some feeling of mollification towards its faults , and a ...
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... worth his coming all the way from London in the rain in the Sunday- night train were it only to have heard Carlyle say , ' There is a nobler ambition than the gaining of all California , or the getting of all the suffrages that are on ...
... worth his coming all the way from London in the rain in the Sunday- night train were it only to have heard Carlyle say , ' There is a nobler ambition than the gaining of all California , or the getting of all the suffrages that are on ...
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... worth ? Of antiquarian studies , too , there is no lack . From some of our heights I can descry , about a day's journey to the west , the hill where Agric- ola and his Romans left a camp behind them . At the foot of it I was born , and ...
... worth ? Of antiquarian studies , too , there is no lack . From some of our heights I can descry , about a day's journey to the west , the hill where Agric- ola and his Romans left a camp behind them . At the foot of it I was born , and ...
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... worth they put into such work they reaped . But it steadily grew into my mind that of all the in- sanities that ever gained foothold in human minds , the wildest was that of telling masses of ignorant people that it is their business to ...
... worth they put into such work they reaped . But it steadily grew into my mind that of all the in- sanities that ever gained foothold in human minds , the wildest was that of telling masses of ignorant people that it is their business to ...
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