Collectanea Thomas Carlyle, 1821-1855 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Collectanea Thomas Carlyle, 1821-1855 It provokes a smile at the expense of the critics to learn, and by his own confession, that Thomas Carlyle is enrolled in the Grand Army of ´rejected contributors.´ Looking back at the battle he had fought and won, he wrote: "It must be owned that my first entrances into glorious ´Literature´ were abundantly stinted and painful; but a man does enter if, with a small gift, he persist; and perhaps it is no disadvantage if the door be several times slammed in his face as a salutary preliminary." Twice, at least, was the door slammed in his face before Dr. Brewster (not yet "Sir David") gave him an allotment of hack-work on the "Edinburgh Encyclopædia;" but the Fates had determined that Thomas Carlyle should ´persist,´ for he was to be "a writer of books." He was gifted with what Goldsmith calls ´a knack of hoping,´ but the gloomy Scotch scholar himself christened his faculty ´desperate hope.´ He could also ´toil terribly;´ and in tenacity of purpose he was as indomitable as Robert Bruce. Given such qualities, together with no ´small gift,´ and the very natural outcome is the thirty-four octavo volumes labelled The Collection Writings of Thomas Carlyle. Why add another book to that long list? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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