The Works Of Thomas Carlyle

This volume contains Thomas Carlyle's translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel cycle, 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' and 'Wilhelm Meister's Travels'. Carlyle's translation, first published in 1824, was instrumental in introducing Goethe's work and German Romanticism to the English-speaking world. The novels follow the protagonist Wilhelm Meister's journey of self-discovery and artistic development, offering insights into 18th-century German society, philosophy, and aesthetics. Carlyle's insightful preface provides valuable context and analysis, making this edition essential for students and scholars of German literature and Romanticism.

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The Works Of Thomas Carlyle

This volume contains Thomas Carlyle's translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel cycle, 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' and 'Wilhelm Meister's Travels'. Carlyle's translation, first published in 1824, was instrumental in introducing Goethe's work and German Romanticism to the English-speaking world. The novels follow the protagonist Wilhelm Meister's journey of self-discovery and artistic development, offering insights into 18th-century German society, philosophy, and aesthetics. Carlyle's insightful preface provides valuable context and analysis, making this edition essential for students and scholars of German literature and Romanticism.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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The Works Of Thomas Carlyle

The Works Of Thomas Carlyle

by Thomas Carlyle
The Works Of Thomas Carlyle

The Works Of Thomas Carlyle

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This volume contains Thomas Carlyle's translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel cycle, 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' and 'Wilhelm Meister's Travels'. Carlyle's translation, first published in 1824, was instrumental in introducing Goethe's work and German Romanticism to the English-speaking world. The novels follow the protagonist Wilhelm Meister's journey of self-discovery and artistic development, offering insights into 18th-century German society, philosophy, and aesthetics. Carlyle's insightful preface provides valuable context and analysis, making this edition essential for students and scholars of German literature and Romanticism.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


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ISBN-13: 9781024871425
Publisher: Hutson Street Press
Publication date: 05/22/2025
Pages: 446
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.90(d)

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No. VI PARLIAMENTS [In June 1850] By this time it is sufficiently apparent the present Editor i not one of those who expect to see the Country saved by farther 'reforming' the reformed Parliament we have got. On the contrary, he has the sad conviction that from such Parliament never so ingeniously reformed, there can no salvation come, but only a speedy finale far different from salvation. It is his effort and desire to teach this and the other thinking British man that said finale, the advent namely of actual open Anarchy, cannot be distant, now when virtual disguised Anarchy, long-continued and waxing daily, has got to such a height; and that the one method of staving-off that fatal consummation, and steering towards the Continents of the Future, lies not in the direction of reforming Parliament, but of what he calls reforming Downing Street; a thing infinitely urgent to be begun, and to be strenuously carried on. To find a Parliament more and more the express image of the People, could, unless the People chanced to be wise as well as miserable, give him no satisfaction. Not this at all; but to find some sort of King, made in the image of God, who could a little achieve for the People, if not their spoken wishes, yet their dumb wants, and what they would at last find to have been their instinctive will,—which is a far different matter usually, in this babbling world of ours. Qualification movement, universal-suffrage movement, Reform Association, and suchlike, this Editor does not enjoin upon his readers;—his readers whom (as every crow is known to think her own eggs whitest) he considers to be a select class, the true Aristocracy of England, capable of far betterthings than these. Which better things, and not the worse, it is his heart's wish to urge them upon doi...

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