Excerpt from Carlyle Till Marriage, 1795-1826 For whatsoe'er we perpetrate We do but row, - we're steered by Fate. My trade was official work in Burma, where Europeans die sooner than at home, and I could not begin to write a Life till after retirement. In the house of Prof. C. E. Norton, near Boston, in 1895, when he urged me to write at once, I had to answer: If I live to 1920 or so, a Life of Carlyle by me is sure to be written. If not, then Providence, whom it concerns, must find some other to do it. What is done in 1920 cannot possibly concern me nothing will interest me then, he answered gravely. 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.