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Rhetoric, the class I once thought of applying for, has (I now find) as yet no existence; and I hang for the present divided between English Literature and Moral Philosophy with a considerable leaning towards the latter.1
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Jessop, R. (1997). Categorizing Carlyle — Literature or Philosophy?. In: Carlyle and Scottish Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371477_2
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