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Carlyle

[ US /ˈkɑɹˌɫaɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. Scottish historian who wrote about the French Revolution (1795-1881)

How To Use Carlyle In A Sentence

  • Great Alardyce is indeed of the same generation as Carlyle, Harriet Martineau numbering as a member of both eminent men's circles.
  • Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. Thomas Carlyle 
  • All of this is good news for Carlyle's family of investors, who seem nonplussed by the questions swirling around the firm.
  • But to Carlyle people in conversation requires constant practice with a master -- _consuetudine quotidiana cum aliquo congredi_ -- and he had for so long a time knocked everybody down without meeting the least resistance, that victory had palled upon him, and he had, so to speak, "vinegared" on himself. Memoirs
  • Carlyle has said: "Death is easy; all men must die"; but to receive two gallons of full-strength sulphuric acid full in the face is a vastly different and vastly more horrible thing than merely to die. CHAPTER XLIX
  • Firth Rixson was a Carlyle-held metal forgings company I ran from 2002-05. My Experience as a Private-Equity CEO
  • Carlyle didn't take much persuading to make a cameo appearance, and the resultant sketch - on the set of a war movie - is a riot of hamminess, spitting and bad German pronunciation.
  • Carlyle's work, and perhaps nowhere breaks out in so repulsive a form as in the piece called "Jesuitism" (1850), in the _Latter-Day Studies in Early Victorian Literature
  • The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle 
  • If we adopt the assumption, then of course what medical materialism insists on must be true in a general way, if not in every detail: Saint Paul certainly had once an epileptoid, if not an epileptic seizure; George Fox was an hereditary degenerate; Carlyle was undoubtedly auto-intoxicated by some organ or other, no matter which -- and the rest. The Varieties of Religious Experience
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