This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...he made or strengthened an acquaintance with Edward Irving, like himself an Annandale man, --like himself a student of divinity, --and once more, like himself, a teacher in a Kirkaldy school, lly residents in Kirkaldy, I have heard the two described as often seen walking on the sea-beach in earnest conversation, and no ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...he made or strengthened an acquaintance with Edward Irving, like himself an Annandale man, --like himself a student of divinity, --and once more, like himself, a teacher in a Kirkaldy school, lly residents in Kirkaldy, I have heard the two described as often seen walking on the sea-beach in earnest conversation, and no doubt the doctrines of the church which both were preparing to enter, formed frequently a main portion of their talk, to which it would not be surprising if Carlylo contributed the sceptical, and Irving the believing portion. It is curious that both these men should afterwards have made so very peculiar a figure in London, as stormy denouncers (each in his own fashion) of the established present, and prophets of a better future. In "Sartor Resartos" Carlyle himself has so vividly painted-the stages of his early mental development, and his writings throughout so unequivocally betray the peculiarities of his personal character, that it is unnecessary in a sketch like the present to dwell on either. About 182S, it would seem, he resolved to quit Kirkaldy, not to enter the church, but to establish himself at Edinburgh as an "author by profession." His mind had been well disciplined by his previous career; it was stored with general information by habits of miscellaneous reading, and accident had recently introduced him to the study of German literature. In his solitary Edinburgh home, the lofty stoicism of Fichte nerved him for the glorious difficulties of a literary career; the powerful and beautiful imaginings of Schiller transported him into an element of art far finer and higher than any he had breathed in the Seotts and Byrons of his time; and Goethe, if not yet fully appreciated, was beginning to teach him how to cast that...
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