Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . Civilisationin England in two volumes (1857-61) Bucklebecame famous ; it was generally recognised thata new star had risen on the intellectual the Continent the work had prompt recognition,and Sir D. MacKenzie Wallace relates that whentravelling in Russia he found it among the book was but a fragment of his oriijinal design, but enough was published to indicate thenature of the
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . Civilisationin England in two volumes (1857-61) Bucklebecame famous ; it was generally recognised thata new star had risen on the intellectual the Continent the work had prompt recognition,and Sir D. MacKenzie Wallace relates that whentravelling in Russia he found it among the book was but a fragment of his oriijinal design, but enough was published to indicate thenature of the theory of civilisation with whichBuckles name will always be associated. Justas the first volume was published Buckle suffereda severe domestic blow. His mother, who hadbeen long ill and very feeble, lived only to havethe volume placed in her hands and to read thededication to herself. With her death a distinctchange came over Buckle. His devotion to hismother amounted to a passion, and the shock ofher death appears to have entirely unmanned bachelor, whose love affairs were of the faintest,Buckle lived only for his mother, and with herdeath he felt himself a solitary wanderer. In. HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. By permission of Messrs Marston & Co. June 1857 signs of physical weakness manifestedthemselves, and as a restorative he in 1861 planneda journey to the East, taking with him two boys,one of whom afterwards became his the journey he caught fever, and died atDamascus on the 29th of May 1862, in his forty-first year. In many ways Buckle was an attrac-tive personality. A student, he was as far aspossible from being a bookworm. His heart wastender, and though immersed in dry studies hefound time for reading poetry, especially Shake-speare, in order, as he said, to keep his affectionsalive. His most striking characteristic, perhaps,was a passion for liberty and justice, as wasseen in his remarkable conflict with Sir JohnColeridge over a half-witted labourer, Thoma
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