Thomas Carlyle

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pubOne.info present you this new edition. Part, is now perhaps conceivable to readers. But as to the Second, the Germanic or Pragmatic Part, - articulate History, after much consideration, is content to renounce attempting these; feels that these will remain forever inconceivable to mankind in the now altered times. So small a gentleman; and he...

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pubOne.info present you this new edition. About fourscore years ago, there used to be seen sauntering on the terraces of Sans Souci, for a short time in the afternoon, or you might have met him elsewhere at an earlier hour, riding or driving in a rapid business manner on the open roads or through the scraggy woods and avenues of that intricate...