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  • Although he politely says "we," when speaking of people in general, that part of the "we" known as Thomas Carlyle certainly keeps his eyes wide open.

    St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated Various 1868

  • If Montesquieu appears as the guiding spirit of 18th-century historiography, novelist Walter Scott plays a comparable role for romantic historians such as Thomas Carlyle, who -- through his cult of the Great Man and his rejection of progress -- invested the past with glamour and romance.

    Book review of Hugh Trevor-Roper's "History and the Enlightenment" 2010

  • Like other nineteenth century thinkers -- such as Thomas Carlyle, Alexis de Tocqueville, or Alexander Herzen -- Engels was trying to find language, concepts, theories, and metaphors in terms of which to comprehend the rapid processes of urbanization and industrialization that he observed.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Daniel Little 2008

  • Like other nineteenth century thinkers -- such as Thomas Carlyle, Alexis de Tocqueville, or Alexander Herzen -- Engels was trying to find language, concepts, theories, and metaphors in terms of which to comprehend the rapid processes of urbanization and industrialization that he observed.

    Engels' sociology of the city Daniel Little 2008

  • In addition to this I have given in a chapter certain conversations with men of note, such as Thomas Carlyle, Lord Lytton, Mr. Roebuck, and others, on gypsies; an account of the first and family names and personal characteristics of English and American Romanys, prepared for me by a very famous old gypsy; and finally a chapter on the "Shelta Thari," or

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • British historian Thomas Carlyle visited Ireland in 1849 and found a “drunk country fallen down to sleep in the mud.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Thomas Carlyle, in his lectures on heroes and hero-worship, assembled a team whose members might also have set off dismay in Carshalton.

    Unthinkable? Horrible heroes | Editorial 2011

  • Some years ago I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution and I was very taken by the way he told the story; and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things.

    Mary Pauline Lowry: An Interview With H.W. Brands on The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield Mary Pauline Lowry 2011

  • Some years ago I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution and I was very taken by the way he told the story; and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things.

    Mary Pauline Lowry: An Interview With H.W. Brands on The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield Mary Pauline Lowry 2011

  • Thomas Carlyle, in his lectures on heroes and hero-worship, assembled a team whose members might also have set off dismay in Carshalton.

    Unthinkable? Horrible heroes | Editorial 2011

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