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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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l-lanies. Ihe following year, Carlyle, who was at one time averse to the idea ofbecoming a personal force in politics, published the first of a series of attacks onthe shams and corruptions of modern society, under the title of Chartism.This he followed in 1843 with Past and Present, and in 1850 with Latter-day Pamphlets, which proved among other things that, if he did not quite ap-prove of slavery, he disapproved of the manner in which it had been abolished inthe British dominions. In 1845 appeared Cromwells Letters and Speeches,perhaps the most successful of all his works, inasmuch as it completely revolu-tionized the public estimate of its subject. In 1851 he published a biography ofhis friend, John Sterling. From this time Carlyle gave himself up entirely tohis largest work, The History of Frederick II., commonly called Frederick theGreat, the first two volumes of which were published in 1858, and which wasconcluded in 1865. The preparation of this book led Carlyle to make two ex-
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CARLYLE AT CHELSEA. THOMAS CARLYLE 169 cursions to the Continent, which, with a yachting trip to Ostend, two tours inIreland (on which he intended to write a book based on a diary that was published after his death), and regular visits to his kindred and friends in Scotland,formed the chief distractions from his literary labors. Among the few publicmovements with which Carlyle identified himself was that which resulted in theestablishment of the London Library, in 1839. In August, 1866, he also al-lowed himself to be elected chairman of the committee for the defence of Mr.Eyre, who had been recalled from his post of Governor of Jamaica on theground of his having shown unnecessary severity in suppressing a negro insurrec-tion which had broken out in October of the previous year, or, as Carlyle put it,for having saved the West Indies and hanged one incendiary mulatto, wellworth the gallows. On November 11, 1865, Carlyle was elected lord rector of Edinburgh Uni-versity, by a majority of

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