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Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“it was no failure of external means, but of internal, that overtook Burns”
Essay on Burns, p. 64 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
Defending the sense of Burns's farm-and-excise plan, Carlyle locates the cause of failure in the man rather than the scheme.
Citation: "it was no failure of external means, but of internal, that overtook Burns" — Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns, p. 64 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q8)
