By 1875 the eighty-year-old Thomas Carlyle was ready to die. In fact, he was rather looking forward to death, at least officially,...
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He knew the precariousness of a society in which the idle were abundant, some with wealth, and some without.
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Thomas Carlyle was highly influential in the Victorian era and beyond as essayist, historian, and philosopher.
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Nancy Mitford finds that Carlyle's biography of the King was one of the oddest ever written, but it is 'so carefully drawn that it finally presents a perfect...
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Britain's most famous intellectuals of the day faced-off over the issue of Jamaica Governor Edward John Eyre's declaration of martial law on...
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The 19th-century sage created words that were never used. William Germano considers cursee, heroarchy, quackle, and one for these times...
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SHARE POST: “In choosing Mill as their target, Carlyle and his allies chose well. Like most classical economists, Mill treated such...
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CARLYLE, the great Victorian student of history, ad-. mired by such contemporaries as Dickens, Tennyson, Emerson, Browning and Thackeray,...
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Julia Margaret Cameron revolutionized photography with her unique vision. Read more to see how her approach transformed the medium.
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(Annie Lane is off this week. The following column was first published in 2022.) Dear Annie: “Numb and Lost” wrote to you regarding...
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