Paradoxically, Carlyle found himself consoling his friend, and later wrote: "Mill... remained injudiciously enough till almost midnight, and my poor Dame and I had to sit talking of indifferent matters; and could not till then get our lament freely uttered".
Although "an eminently dislikable document," Ryan writes, Mill's Essay on Government "has virtues that ought not to be neglected".
On Liberty, the essay in which the above quotation appears, is not, writes Mill, the occasion for developing this idea as it relates to "parts of national education".
It also has Roger, who writes Mills & Boon novels under the pen name Gill Sanderson.
Not only did the novel set numerous "writing mills a-going" in imitation, as one pamphlet had it, so many that its author had to authenticate with his signature all the copies of volumes five and six as they came off the press, it also reared its head in unexpected places.
Phil Dee talks about his first experience going through the paper-writing mill.
Having just been through the paper-writing mill, I'd like to offer a few reflections on how my new bit of human knowledge reached the printed page.
Eliot wrote The Mill on the Floss at Holly Lodge in 1859.
They all wrote well: Mill simply, Russell entertainingly, Ayer with sparkling concision.
From Gaston, North Carolina, she wrote of mill workers who hung portraits of President Roosevelt over their mantels like "the Italian peasant's Madonna".
