{"product_id":"2940001063940","title":"Readings from Carlyle","description":"Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.\u003cbr\u003eThis is an OCR edition with typos.\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from book:\u003cbr\u003ekneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten.—All these heaped and huddled together, with nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between them ;—crammed in, like salted fish in their barrel; —or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers, each struggling to get its head above the others: such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane !—But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the Stars.\" We looked in his face to see whether, in the utterance of such extraordinary Night-thoughts, no feeling might be traced there; but with the light we had, which indeed was only a single tallow-light, and far enough from the window, nothing save that old calmness and fixedness was visible. II. UNIVERSITY DAYS OF CARLYLE. \" Adiecerc bonae paulo plus artis Athenae, Scilicet ut possom eurvo dignoscere rectum, Atque inter silvas Academi quacrere verum.\"— Hor. Epp. ii. 2. 43. [Carlyle here describes the University of Edinburgh as it was in his own young days. From the account here given some deduction-may be made on the ground of the writer's youth, while his later views on the true functions of a University will be found in his Rectorial Address— \" to read, on my own strength, fluently in almost all cultivated languages, on almost all subjects and sciences.\" The beginnings of intellectual self-consciousness, religious struggles and doubts, are powerfully depicted. The general reader, who may be a stranger to the ways of the Scottish Universities, will find some light on this point in Dr. George Mac Donald's well-known novel, Alec Forbex of Honyleii.] \" The University where I was educated still stands vivid enough in my remembrance, and I know its name well; which name, however, I, from tenderness to existing int...","brand":"Blackie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155963330800,"sku":"2940001063940","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940001063940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}