With its wonderful new system of
mnemonics, whereby great and insignificant men are ineffaceably
ticketed and marked and modeled in memory by what they were, had,
and did; and withal a book that is a Judgment Day, for its moral
verdict on the men and nations and manners of modern times.
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* In the first edition, this extract was printed from the
original Diary; it is now printed according to the copy
sent abroad.
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And this book makes no noise; I have hardly seen a notice of it
in any newspaper or journal, and you would think there was no
such book. I am not aware that Mr. Buchanan has sent a special
messenger to Great Cheyne Row, Chelsea, or that Mr. Dallas has
been instructed to assure Mr. Carlyle of his distinguished
consideration. But the secret wits and hearts of men take note
of it, not the less surely. They have said nothing lately in
praise of the air, or of fire, or of the blessing of love, and
yet, I suppose, they are sensible of these, and not less of this
book, which is like these.
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