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| | §2. Carlyles early years. I. Carlyle. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Born in the little Dumfriesshire village of Ecclefechan on 4 December, 1795, when the lurid light of the French revolution still lit up the European sky, Thomas Carlyle came of a typical lowland Scottish peasant stock, and, to the last, he remained himself a peasant, bound by a thousand clannish bonds to his provincial home. |
 | | The narrow ties of blood and family always meant more to him than that citizenship of the world which is demanded of a man of genius; and, in spite of his forty years life in the metropolis, he never succeeded in shaking off the unpliant instincts of the south of Scotland peasant. |
 | | From Annan, Carlyle, now in his twenty-first year, passed, with the help of a recommendation from his Edinburgh professor, to Kirkcaldy, whither Irving had preceded himstill as mathematical master, still without any kind of clearness as to what kind of work he was ultimately to do in the world. |
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