item: #1 of 12
          id: 13583
      author: Carlyle, Thomas
       title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
        date: None
       words: 89488
      flesch: 79
     summary: The man withal is a _Catholic,_ eats fish on Friday;--a great lion here when he visits us; one of the _naivest_ men in the world: concerning whom nevertheless, among fashionables, there is a controversy, Whether he is an Angel, or partially a Windbag and _Humbug?_ I know not that you will find it to strike direct upon the secret of _Emerson,_ to hit the nail on the head, anywhere at all; I rather think not.
    keywords: account; american; answer; book; bookseller; boston; brother; brown; carlyle; chelsea; come; concord; copies; copy; country; course; day; days; dear; edition; emerson; england; english; face; fraser; french; friend; god; good; great; hand; health; heart; hope; house; kind; lectures; letter; life; little; london; love; man; men; miscellanies; money; months; mother; mrs; nature; nay; new; paper; people; poor; present; print; printing; rest; revolution; right; second; sterling; thing; thought; time; volumes; way; weeks; wife; wish; work; world; years; york
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 13660
      author: Carlyle, Thomas
       title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
        date: None
       words: 86038
      flesch: 75
     summary: The speech of men and American hero-worshipers is grown such a babblement: in very truth, _silence_ is the thing that chiefly has meaning,--there or here.... --------- * I might study even but, as I said, there are noises going on; a _last_ desperate spasmodic effort of building,--a new top-story to the house, out of which is to be made one spacious room (so they call it, though it is under twenty feet square) where there shall be air _ad libitum,_ light from the sky, and no _sound,_ not even that of the Cremorne Cannons, shall find access to me any more!
    keywords: adieu; america; answer; april; believe; book; boston; business; carlyle; carlyle concord; chapman; chelsea; concord; copy; country; cromwell; days; dear; dear emerson; edition; emerson; emerson chelsea; england; english; eyes; fact; friend; fuller; good; great; half; hand; head; hear; history; home; hope; house; human; kind; left; letter; life; london; love; man; manner; matter; men; months; new; past; people; place; poor; present; read; reading; rest; right; set; silence; speak; steamer; sterling; t. carlyle; thanks; things; thought; time; volumes; way; weeks; welcome; wife; wish; work; world; writing; years; york
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 14992
      author: Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)
       title: The Life of Froude
        date: None
       words: 111020
      flesch: 70
     summary: Mr. James Rye, of Balliol College, Oxford, placed at my disposal, with singular generosity, the results of his careful examination into the charges made against Mr. Froude by Mr. Freeman. I have, in conclusion, to thank my old friend Mr. Birrell, for lending me his very rare copy of the funeral sermon preached by Mr. Froude at Torquay. October 30, 1905.
    keywords: anthony froude; bishop; book; british; cape; carlyle; case; catholic; century; character; church; colonial; country; course; day; death; elizabeth; end; england; english; fact; faith; father; freeman; froude; gave; gladstone; god; good; government; great; hand; henry; historian; history; home; house; ireland; irish; kind; letters; life; london; lord; man; mary; means; men; mind; mrs; newman; opinion; oxford; parliament; people; place; point; power; protestant; public; question; read; real; reformation; religion; review; right; sense; set; sir; south; state; subject; things; thought; time; truth; volumes; way; wife; words; work; world; writing; years
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 18851
      author: Morison, James Cotter
       title: Gibbon
        date: None
       words: 56759
      flesch: 65
     summary: There is something slightly incongruous in the idea of Gibbon _fasting_ out of religious scruples, but the fact shows that his religion had obtained no slight hold of him, and that although he had embraced it quickly, he also accepted with intrepid frankness all its consequences. It is easy to gather from Madame Necker's letter that she was very glad to show Mr. Gibbon that for going farther and not marrying him she had not fared worse.
    keywords: age; century; chapter; character; church; city; constantinople; country; day; days; decline; empire; england; english; events; fact; fall; father; french; friend; general; gibbon; good; greek; historian; history; house; knowledge; language; lausanne; left; letters; life; lord; madame; man; memoirs; men; mind; months; new; period; place; point; present; rome; second; sense; sheffield; society; spirit; study; style; subject; thought; time; view; volume; war; way; work; world; years
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 2044
      author: Adams, Henry
       title: The Education of Henry Adams
        date: None
       words: 178929
      flesch: 65
     summary: The Legation was a shifting point, between 1785 and 1815; but the Consulate, far down in the City, near the Tower, was convenient and inviting; so inviting that it proved fatal to young Adams. CHAPTER IV HARVARD COLLEGE (1854-1858) ONE day in June, 1854, young Adams walked for the last time down the steps of Mr. Dixwell's school in Boylston Place, and felt no sensation but one of unqualified joy that this experience was ended.
    keywords: adams; american; boston; boy; british; century; chance; charles; church; class; college; course; day; doubt; education; effort; energy; england; english; europe; fact; father; force; form; friends; future; german; gladstone; good; government; grant; great; half; hand; harvard; hay; help; henry adams; history; home; house; human; idea; ignorance; interest; john; know; law; life; london; long; lord; man; matter; men; milnes; mind; minister adams; moment; moral; nature; new; order; palmerston; paris; party; people; place; point; politics; position; power; president; public; question; quincy; reason; relation; result; right; russell; saw; school; science; secretary; self; senator; sense; sir; social; society; sort; state; street; student; study; success; sumner; system; taught; thought; time; unity; universe; value; war; washington; way; woman; work; world; worth; years
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 2647
      author: Trevelyan, George Otto
       title: Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
        date: None
       words: 156157
      flesch: 70
     summary: He was surrounded by great men, by victorious commanders, by sagacious statesmen. I assure you that the violence of the people, the bigotry of the Lords, and the stupidity and weakness of the Ministers, alarm me so much that even my rest is disturbed by vexation and uneasy forebodings; not for myself; for I may gain, and cannot lose; but for this noble country, which seems likely to be ruined without the miserable consolation of being ruined by great men.
    keywords: account; article; bill; book; boy; business; calcutta; cambridge; case; character; commons; company; conversation; country; course; day; days; dear; dinner; england; english; evening; family; father; fellow; fine; friends; general; good; government; great; greek; half; hand; hannah; head; heart; history; holland; home; hope; hour; house; india; interest; john; kind; king; lady; law; leave; left; letters; life; literature; london; lord; lord macaulay; love; macaulay; man; means; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; number; office; opinion; order; parliament; party; people; person; place; pleasure; politics; poor; power; present; public; question; reading; reason; review; room; second; set; sir; sister; society; speech; state; street; subject; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; way; week; wish; words; work; world; writing; years; yesterday; young
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 32089
      author: Mayer, Brantz
       title: Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D.
        date: None
       words: 7867
      flesch: 55
     summary: Mr. Sparks was what we call, in America, a self-made man. By a self-made man I do not mean to class Mr. Sparks with that large and influential body of citizens whose portraits adorn the illustrated newspapers, and whose memoirs disclose the opinion that the making of a great deal of money is the making of a very exemplary man.
    keywords: american; baltimore; character; history; life; man; mind; sparks; time; washington; work; years
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 32626
      author: Macpherson, Hector
       title: Thomas Carlyle
        date: None
       words: 37098
      flesch: 71
     summary: 'Curious stories,' he wrote, 'are told of the eagerness on every side manifested to hear Mr Carlyle. In a word, there seemed no passivity about Mr Carlyle; he was the diamond, and the world was his pane of glass; he was a graving tool, rather than a thing graven upon--a man to set his mark on the world--a man on whom the world could not set _its_ mark....
    keywords: book; carlyle; course; craigenputtock; cromwell; day; days; death; edinburgh; father; french; froude; german; good; heart; house; human; irving; jeffrey; john; kind; life; literature; london; man; men; mill; mind; mother; mrs carlyle; nature; place; revolution; theory; thing; thomas carlyle; thought; time; vol; way; wife; work; world; years
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 39084
      author: Peck, Harry Thurston
       title: William Hickling Prescott
        date: None
       words: 55490
      flesch: 65
     summary: I doubt whether Mr. Prescott was aware of the extent of the sacrifice I made. And, what with translating this simple story, what with people's listening rather carelessly and remembering rather carelessly, by the time my letters were drafted I had become a sort of 'double' of Mr. Prescott himself.
    keywords: american; book; boston; chapter; character; composition; conquest; cortés; course; day; days; early; england; english; eye; fact; father; ferdinand; friends; general; good; hand; historical; history; house; interest; irving; isabella; letters; life; like; literature; man; men; mexico; mind; months; nature; new; pages; philip; place; prescott; public; reading; spanish; study; style; subject; thought; ticknor; time; way; william; work; world; writing; years
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 45165
      author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
       title: Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley")
        date: None
       words: 88120
      flesch: 72
     summary: At other times I never could discover in his appearance anything but the features and aspect of an ordinary, and certainly not prepossessing, old man. In the passionate parts there was a display of vigor, but at other times the performance was quiet and natural, without any of the stage exaggeration I am accustomed to.
    keywords: age; air; american; books; chapter; character; children; church; city; country; course; day; days; deacon; england; evening; face; fact; family; father; feet; fire; general; good; government; half; hand; head; heart; history; home; house; interest; kind; king; left; life; like; london; louis; man; men; miles; mind; moment; morning; mother; nature; new; night; paris; parley; people; period; persons; place; point; present; public; read; return; ridgefield; room; scene; school; set; sir; smith; state; subject; summer; things; thought; time; town; war; way; west; winter; works; world; years; york
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 6031
      author: Gibbon, Edward
       title: Memoirs of My Life and Writings
        date: None
       words: 54944
      flesch: 52
     summary: I spent many years in that illustrious society, in a well-regulated course of useful discipline and studies, and in the agreeable and improving commerce of gentlemen and of scholars; in a society where emulation without envy, ambition without jealousy, contention without animosity, incited industry, and awakened genius; where a liberal pursuit of knowledge, and a genuine freedom of thought, were raised, encouraged, and pushed forward by example, by commendation, and by authority. A composition of genius must be the offspring of one mind; but such works of industry, as may be divided among many hands, and must be continued during many years, are the peculiar province of a laborious community.
    keywords: age; author; books; character; church; college; conversation; country; day; days; education; england; english; family; father; fortune; france; freedom; french; friend; general; gibbon; greek; history; home; house; knowledge; language; latin; lausanne; learning; letters; life; london; lord; man; men; mind; months; nature; oxford; pleasure; present; public; read; return; school; second; sir; society; spirit; state; studies; study; style; taste; time; volume; work; world; years; youth
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 9784
      author: Nichol, John
       title: Thomas Carlyle
        date: None
       words: 82767
      flesch: 62
     summary: From this scepticism, deeper than that of _Queen Mab,_ fiercer than that of _Candide,_ Carlyle was dramatically rescued by the sense that he was a servant of God, even when doubting His existence. In the Republic the souls select their lots: with Carlyle man can modify his fate.
    keywords: account; age; author; belief; book; brother; burns; byron; carlyle; century; chapter; close; criticism; cromwell; day; days; death; edinburgh; emerson; england; english; fact; faith; father; following; footnote; force; french; friedrich; friends; froude; genius; german; god; goethe; good; great; half; hand; heart; history; home; house; human; irving; john; kind; law; letters; life; like; literature; little; london; lord; love; man; manner; men; mill; mind; mother; mrs; nature; new; past; people; period; place; power; present; question; revolution; right; sartor; scotch; sense; set; sir; soul; spirit; state; things; thomas; thought; time; truth; view; visit; war; way; welsh; wife; words; work; world; writer; writing; years
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