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I have written and read a kind of sermon to the Senior Class of our Cambridge Theological School a fortnight ago; and an address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College; * for though I hate American pleniloquence, I cannot easily say No to young men who bid me speak also.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Senior Class of our Cambridge Theological School a fortnight ago; and an address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College; * for though I hate American pleniloquence, I cannot easily say No to young men who bid me speak also.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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