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On the Choice of Books
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Title: On the Choice of Books
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Release Date: September 11, 2004 [EBook #13435]
Language: English
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ON THE CHOICE OF BOOKS
THOMAS CARLYLE
WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR [Illustration: No. 5 _Great Cheyne Row.
The Residence of Mr. Carlyle from_ 1834 _until his Death_]
A NEW EDITION CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
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CONTENTS. PAGE BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION 7
ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE STUDENTS OF EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY, APRIL 2, 1866 125
THE MORAL PHILOSOPHY CHAIR IN EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY 189
FAREWELL LETTER TO THE STUDENTS 192
BEQUEST BY MR. CARLYLE 195
INDEX 201
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BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION.
There comes a time in the career of every man of genius who has devoted a long life to the instruction and enlightenment of his fellow-creatures, when he receives before his death all the honours paid by posterity. Thus when a great essayist or historian lives to attain a classic and world-wide fame, his own biography becomes as interesting to the public as those he himself has written, and