Carlyle
[kɑ:'lail]
Definition
(noun.) Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881).
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Examples
- His poverty seems particularly to have provoked the scorn of Carlyle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And here to set against this is Carlyle's picture of the mood of the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is the man who is called by Carlyle rabid dog, atrocious, squalid, and Dog-leech--this last by way of tribute to his science. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is told with great appreciation in Carlyle's _Frederick the Great_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mostly, his eyes were closed, but, says Carlyle, he opened them to see the great knife rising above him, and struggled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here are some extracts from Carlyle descriptive of that unfortunate feast. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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