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Carlyle, Thomas · 1881

THOMAS CARLYLE, born in 1795 at Ecclefechan, the son of a stonemason. Educated at Edinburgh University. Schoolmaster for a short time, but decided on a literary career, visiting Paris and London. Retired in 1828 to Dumfriesshire to write. In 1834 moved to Cheyne Row, Chelsea, and died there in 1881. INTRODUCTION Being an appreciation from "The Dial" (July 1843) by Ralph Waldo Emerson…

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