Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian, critic, and sociological writer. was born in the village of Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, eldest child of James Carlyle, stonemason, and Margaret (Aitken) Carlyle. The father was stern, irascible, a puritan of the puritans, but withal a man of rigid probity and strength of character. The mother, too, was of the Scottish earth, and Thomas' education was begun at home by both the parents. From the age of five to nine he was at the village school; from nine to fourteen at Annan Grammar School. where he showed proficiency in mathematics and was well grounded in French and Latin. In November 1809 he walked to Edinburgh, and attended courses at the University till 1814, with the ultimate aim of becoming a minister. He left without a degree, became a mathematical tutor at Annan Academy in 1814, and three years later abandoned all thoughts of entering the Kirk, having reached a theological position incompatible with its teachings. He had begun to learn German in Edinburgh, and had done much independent reading outside the regular curriculum. Late in 1816 he moved to a school in Kirkcaldy, where he became the intimate associate of Edward Irving, an old boy of Annan School, and now also a schoolmaster. This contact was Carlyle's first experience of true intellectual companionship, and the two men became lifelong friends. He remained there two years, was attracted by Margaret Gordon, a lady of good family (whose friends vetoed an engagement), and in October 1818 gave up schoolmastering and went to Edinburgh, where he took mathematical pupils and made some show of reading law. During this period in the Scottish capital he began to suffer agonies from a gastric complaint which continued to torment him all his life, and may well have played a large part in shaping the rugged, rude fabric of his philosophy. In literature he had at first little success, a series of articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia bringing in little money and no special credit. In 1820 and 1821 he visited Irving in Glasgow and made long stays at his father's new farm, Mainhill; and in June 1821, in Leith Walk, Edinburgh, he experienced a striking spiritual rebirth which is related in Sartor Resartus. Put briefly and prosaically, it consisted in a sudden clearing away of doubts as to the beneficent organization of the universe; a semi-mystical conviction that he was free to think and work, and that honest effort and striving would not be thwarted by what he called the "Everlasting No." For about a year, from the spring of 1823, Carlyle was tutor to Charles and Arthur Buller, young men of substance, first in Edinburgh and later at Dunkeld. Now likewise appeared the first fruits of his deep studies in German, the Life of Schiller, which was published serially in the London Magazine in 1823-24 and issued as a separate volume in 1825. A second garner from the same field was his version of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister which earned the praise of Blackwood's and was at once recognized as a very masterly rendering. In 1821 Irving had gone to London, and in June 1821 Carlyle followed, in the train of his employers, the Bullers. But he soon resigned his tutorship, and, after a few weeks at Birmingham, trying a dyspepsia cure, he lived with Irving at Pentonville, London, and paid a short visit to Paris. March 1825 saw him back; in Scotland, on his brother's farm, Hoddam Hill, near the Solway. Here for a year he worked hard at German translations, perhaps more serenely than before or after and free from that noise which was always a curse to his sensitive ear and which later caused him to build a sound-proof room in his Chelsea home. Before leaving for London Irving had introduced Carlyle to Jane Baillie Welsh daughter of the surgeon, John Welsh, and descended from John Knox. She was beautiful, precociously learned, talented, and a brilliant mistress of cynical satire. Among her numerous suitors, the rough, uncouth
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The book that established Thomas Carlyle’s reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to bring the past to blazing life, making it a reading experience as thrilling as any novel. As John D. Rosenberg observes in his Introduction, The French Revolution is “one of the grand poems of [Carlyle’s] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact.”This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else.
Sartor Resartus (The Tailor Retailored) is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and understanding. This is the first edition to present the novel as it originally appeared, with indications of the changes Carlyle made to later editions.
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The entire text of Chartism and chapters from The French Revolution and Frederick the Great are among these selections from the writings of the Scottish historian
Harald took the sword, drew it, or was half drawing it, admiringly from the scabbard, when the English excellency broke into a scornful laugh, "Ha, ha; thou art now the feudatory of my English king; thou hast accepted the sword from him, and art now his man!" (acceptance of a sword in that manner being the symbol of investiture in those days.) Harald looked a trifle flurried, it is probable; but held in his wrath, and did no damage to the tricksy Englishman.
هذا الكتاب عبارة عن رسالة اراد صاحبها – وهو نصراني من أبرز شخصيات القرن التاسع عشر – وأعظم فلاسفة الانجليز قاطبة أن يحق بها حقا ويبطل باطلا . فلقد هاله ما تعرضت له شخصية الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم من تجن وظلم فبحث وتقصى حتى ادرك جوانب العظمة ومواطن التقدير والإبهار في ذلك الذي “أدبه ربه فأحسن تأديبه” فعرض لها في موضوعية وحيدة جديرتان بالتقدير.ولكن المؤلف ان كنا لا نبخثة حقه من الثناء على روعة فكرة وصفاء ذهنه وروحه وشجاعته وصدق مقصده- قد وقع في بعض الأخطاء في تقييم الحقيقة الإسلامية ، إذ نزع في بعض فهمه إلى ما أشاعة بعض المستشرقين ومؤرخي الغرب المغرضين من دس لبعض جوانب عظمة الإسلام ن فقد غابت عنه جوانب أعظم .. لو علمها لكان بما لمسناه فيه من روح الإنصاف وإحقاق الحق من كبار دعاة المسلمين.عنوان هذا الكتاب بالإنجليزية: (Heroes and hero-worship). وترجمتها: “البطولة وعبادة الأبطال”.وضعه الكاتب الأشهر، والفيلسوف الأكبر، توماس كارليل، وعرَبه محمد السباعى. ويحتوى على خمس محاضرات، ألقاها الكاتب على بنى قومه، هى:- المحاضرة الأولى: البطل فى صورة إله.- المحاضرة الثانية: البطل فى صورة رسول: محمد- الإسلام.- المحاضرة الثالثة: البطل فى صورة شاعر: دانتى- شكسبير.ونقتصر فى طبعتنا هذه على المحاضرة الثانية، التى ألقاها الكاتب بتاريخ (8 مايو، سنة 1840م)وقد. آثرنا إصدار هذه المحاضرة مفردة فى كتيب يحمل اسم “محمد المثل الأعلى”.وأهمية ما كتبه توماس كارليل منذ هذا الوقت البعيد، تكمن فى تجرده وموضوعيته الواضحة فى مؤلفه، وغيرته على الحقيقة التاريخية، ورفضاً للأحكام السابقة والمتحيزة، وفى دراسته لسيرة الرسول “صلى الله عليه وسلم” وللفترة المرافقة لنزول الوحى، وبدء الدعوة الإسلامية. ورده على تهجمات بعض الغربيين على الإسلام ونبيه، وهم الذين طالما ألصقوا التهم الباطلة برسول الله “صلى الله عليه وسلم”، وبالدين الحنيف.ويؤمن فيلسوف الغرب كارلايل بأهمية الدين فى حياة البشر، ودوره الكبير فى تشكيل تاريخهم. فما التاريخ إلا تاريخ الأفكار التى صاغت حياة الناس. وإن تاريخ البشر هو تاريخ عظماء الرجال الذين صاغوه، وتاريخ الأفكار التى بثوها فى الناس.
"Υπερβαίνουμε όλες τις άλλες εποχές στη διαχείρηση των εξωτερικών πραγμάτων. Σε ότι αφορά όμως την καθαρά ηθική φύση, την αληθινή αξιοπρέπεια ψυχής και χαρακτήρα, είμαστε ίσως κατώτεροι απο τις περισσότερες πολιτισμένες εποχές".
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
by Thomas Carlyle
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In The Present Time, Carlyle takes aim at modernity. This essay was, even in its time, seen as so blistering that the Southern Literary Messenger described its contents as "purely monstrous, and the most elaborate argument would not place their monstrosity more clearly before the reader, than the simple enunciation of them." We present it here with another of Carlyle's essays.Carlyle influenced not only fascism but socialism, and in The Modern Worker he grants the worker his essential nobility and savagely critiques laissez-faire economics. He folds his anti-capitalism into the critique of modernity given in The Present TimeAs Carlyle is known for coinages and obscure references, this volume offers a comprehensive glossary of terms. For many readers, this will be the first time they have fully grasped this titanic intellect.
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Classic work which began as an address to students of Edinburgh University, by the Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era.
The Scottish philosopher, satirist and historian is widely regarded as one of the most important social commentators of his time, whose broad range of works had a lasting influence on his Victorian contemporaries. This comprehensive eBook presents the collected works of Thomas Carlyle, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Carlyle’s life and works * Concise introductions to the non-fiction works and other texts * ALL the translated German fictional works, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many rare works not available in other collections, including THE DIAMOND NECKLACE, MEMOIRS OF MIRABEAU and SAMUEL JOHNSON * Includes Carlyle’s letters - spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence * Carlyle’s memoir book of REMINISCENCES — first time in digital print * Features a bonus biography — discover Carlyle’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Translations WILHELM MEISTER’S APPRENTICESHIP GERMAN ROMANCE: SPECIMENS OF ITS CHIEF AUTHORS The Biographies LIFE OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER MEMOIRS OF MIRABEAU LIFE OF JOHN STERLING LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA Other Non-Fiction Works SARTOR RESARTUS THE DIAMOND NECKLACE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. A HISTORY CHARTISM ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY PAST AND PRESENT OCCASIONAL DISCOURSE ON THE NEGRO QUESTION LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS SAMUEL JOHNSON SHOOTING NIAGARA: AND AFTER? THE EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY ON THE CHOICE OF BOOKS SHALL TURKEY LIVE OR DIE? MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM The Poetry LIST OF POEMS The Memoirs REMINISCENCES The Letters THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Biography THOMAS CARLYLE by G. K. Chesterton and J. E. Hodder Williams Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
This Life of the great Scottish bard is composed of two parts. The first part, which is brief, and gives merely his external life, is taken from the "Encyclopedia Britannica." The principle object of it, in this place, is to prepare the reader for what follows. The second part is a grand spiritual portrait of Burns, the like of which the ages have scarcely produced; the equal of which, in our opinion, does not exist. In fact, since men began to write and publish their thoughts in this world, no one has appeared who equals Carlyle as a spiritual-portrait painter; and, taken all in all, this of his gifted countryman Burns is his master-piece. I should not dare to say how many times I have perused it, and always with new wonder and delight. I once read it in the Manfrini Palace, at Venice, sitting before Titian's portrait of Ariosto. Great is the contrast between the Songs of Burns and the Rime of the Italian poet, between the fine spiritual perception of Carlyle's mind and the delicate touch of Titian's hand, between picturesque expression and an expressive picture; yet this very antithesis seemed to prepare my mind for the full enjoyment of both these famous portraits; the sombre majesty of northern genius seemed to heighten and be heightened by the sunset glow of the genius of the south.
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The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
by Thomas Carlyle
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"[...]seemingly above a year back, may perhaps be welcome to here and there a speculative reader. It comes to us,—no speaker named, no time or place assigned, no commentary of any sort given,—in the handwriting of the so-called ‘Doctor,’ properly ‘Absconded Reporter,’ Dr. Phelim M‘Quirk, whose singular powers of reporting, and also whose debts, extravagances, and sorrowful insidious finance-operations, now winded up by a sudden disappearance, to the grief of many poor tradespeople, are making too much noise in the police-offices at present! Of M‘Quirk’s composition we by no means suppose it to be; but from M‘Quirk, as the last traceable source, it comes to us;—offered, in fact, by his respectable unfortunate landlady, desirous to make up part of her losses in this way.To absconded reporters who bilk their lodgings, we have of course no account to but if the Speaker be of any eminence or substantiality, and feel himself aggrieved by the transaction, let him understand that such, and such only, is our connexion with him or his affairs. As the Colonial and Negro Question is still alive, and likely to grow livelier for some time, we have accepted the Article, at a cheap market-rate; and give it publicity, without in the least committing ourselves to the strange doctrines and[...]".
Thomas Carlyle was one of the most influential commentators of the nineteenth writer, critic, historian, biographer and brilliant correspondent, he dominated his age. Described as `the greatest writer of his time' his Reminiscences lovingly trace the triumphs, sorrows, andachievements of his often turbulent marriage with Jane Welsh. Devastated by his wife's death, Carlyle set down his recollections of their life together with moving directness, in an account that reveals much about his own character. This is the only complete unabridged edition of his work, and adetailed introduction and notes further illumintate Carlyle's compelling and vivid prose.
The French Revolution: a history in three parts: 1. The Bastille; II. The constitution; III. The guillotine Volume 3
by Thomas Carlyle
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A Carlyle Reader" constitutes the most substantial one-volume presentation of representative writings of the great Victorian prose writer, historian, philosopher and social critic-Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881). It contains the full text of Carlyle's seminal work Sartor Resartus as well as the full text of five of his most influential essays. It also offers general selections from The French Revolution, Past and Present, On Heroes and Hero Worship, and the celebrated Coleridge chapter from The Life of John Sterling". In addition to offering a rich sampling of Carlyle in all his various literary manifestations, this volume enables the the reder to study Carlyle chronologically, the first entry being from 1823 and the last from 1876.The almost forty pages of introductory material provide a biographical overview of Carlyle's life, a presentation of his leading ideas and a discussion of his unique prose style. There is a bibliography of secondary writings and a chronology of Carlyle's life. Every section is preceded by an explanatory introduction by the editor.
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Originally published in 1892. The "Diamond Necklace" has been selected for annotation in preference to the more commonly read essays for several reasons. It presents specimens of all of Carlyle's varied essays, narrative, dramatic, and descriptive. It is, in miniature, a work of the same character as the "French Revolution," Carlyle's most artistic production, and has all the peculiarities, both faulty and beautiful, of that work. It is short and interesting, and experience with it in the class room has demonstrated the advantages of studying it.... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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