Thomas CarlyleChatto & Windus, 1881 - 223 pages |
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Page 25
... ne'er shall find , " Like thee , with common lot contented , With humble joys and vulgar fate , I might have lived and ne'er lamented , Moth of a larger size , a longer date ! " But Nature's majesty unveiling ; What seemed her wildest 25.
... ne'er shall find , " Like thee , with common lot contented , With humble joys and vulgar fate , I might have lived and ne'er lamented , Moth of a larger size , a longer date ! " But Nature's majesty unveiling ; What seemed her wildest 25.
Page 26
... seemed to be ministry in the Scotch Church . He toiled to that height and found it a mere hillock , —many summits rising beyond that . Other seeming mountains also turned to hills beneath his ascending steps , until at last he came to ...
... seemed to be ministry in the Scotch Church . He toiled to that height and found it a mere hillock , —many summits rising beyond that . Other seeming mountains also turned to hills beneath his ascending steps , until at last he came to ...
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... seemed at first a thankless task . Publishers refused it . It lay silent for seven years , and when it appeared by instalments in a magazine the subscribers grumbled at it ; but it found in America one able to read in it the history of ...
... seemed at first a thankless task . Publishers refused it . It lay silent for seven years , and when it appeared by instalments in a magazine the subscribers grumbled at it ; but it found in America one able to read in it the history of ...
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