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Excerpt from The French Revolution: A History
Thomas Carlyle was never anything but a very poor man; and in his beginnings he was poor indeed. At the Annan Grammar School, and at Edinburgh University, he got such education as the time permitted and. Afterwards he taught mathematics in the school, and m 1816 was a schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy, where the famous preacher Edward Irving be came his nearest friend. For the next six or eight years he studied law in Edinburgh, supporting himself by tutoring and by supplying articles to encyclopaedias; in 1824 he was enabled to visit the Continent and London; and in 1826 he was mar ried to Jane Welsh, and they took up their abode at a house called Comely Bank in Edinburgh. But after two years there, circumstances took them to the village of Craigenputtock, and kept them there six years. Carlyle had by this time made himself felt in literature; through the medium of the Lon don Magazine and Fraser's he had published several weighty essays and criticisms, largely on German literature and biography, and had written his philosophical romance of Sartor Resartus, which received its first cordial recognition in this country through the agency of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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