Excerpt from Carlyle: Personally and in His Writings While he was but in the middle of his manhood, and had thirty-seven years more of life and labour still before him, his dying friend John Sterling had sent him this message of farewell, - Towards me it is still more true than towards England that no man has been and done like you and during those thirty-seven years Sterling's words had become almost an accepted formula for myriads of persons in all parts of the English-speaking earth when they thought of Carlyle and would express their admiration for him and obligations to him. And so, as I have said, it was in peaceful dignity and amid universal honour that the old man died at last; and, when his body was borne, privately and unostentatiously, to its simple resting-place in the burying-ground of his native Ecclefechan, there were thousands that followed it thither m imagination, to stand round the spot reverently and with uncovered heads, think of all that the old man had been, and take loving leave of him with the prayer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.