AUTHORS AND THEIR VIEWS
THE RESPECTABLE ENGLISHMAN. 'Tew Englishmen can make the smallest attempt at writing biography ; they are a poor mode-stricken and otherwise people; hunting after respectability, in of missing it; and so write, as they do all other things, in a state of partial paralysis."—Thomas Carlyie.
SILENCE VERSUS SPEECH. "I have thought some day of writing one of the poverfullest discourses I can on silence : all speech, even a seraph's is a triviality compared with it; our age has entirely lost feeling of it, or all but entirely and is become empty; and of the nature of a drum etc.. "All this, says Carlyle in a letter to Mr. John Sterling in 1857— I have had thoughts of writing. Most wears-, flat, stale, seem to i me all the electioneerings and screechings 1 "li Jjibberings that the earth is filled i witn m these, or indeed, in any days."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18577, 8 December 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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