He is defined by Thomas Carlyle as " a failure of a Fritz ," with " features " of a Frederick the Great in him, " but who burnt away his splendid qualities as a mere temporary shine for the able editors, and never came to anything, full of fire, too much of it wildfire, not in the least like an Alcibiades except in the change of fortune he underwent ".

Alongside with Carlyle the Great Man theory was supported by American scholar Frederick Adams Woods.

33, " Versuch einer Lebensr beschreibung des F. M. Seckendorf " ( Leipzig, 1792 – 1794 ); Seelander, Graf Seckendorf und der Friede v. Passau ( Gotha, 1883 ); Carlyle, Frederick the Great, vols.

In 1757 his Mémoires militaires sur les Grecs et les Romains appeared at the Hague, and when Carlyle wrote his Frederick the Great it had reached its fifth edition.

129-145 ; Carlyle, Frederick the Great, viii.

When not on the march he was always at the royal headquarters, and it was he who brought about the famous interview between the king and Gellert ( see Carlyle, Frederick the Great, ix.

Carlyle ( left ) depicted with Frederick Denison Maurice | Frederick Maurice in Ford Madox Brown's painting Work ( 1865 ).

Thomas Carlyle attributed the origin of the term to Edmund Burke, who used it in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of Press reporting of the House of Commons of Great Britain.

Also in February 2008, a bill was introduced in California that would have barred CalPERS from investing money " with private-equity firms that are partly owned by countries with poor records on human rights ," which would include Carlyle because Mubadala Development is owned by part of the United Arab Emirates.

They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk, and have released records on the labels Clear, Peacefrog, Black Dog Productions, and Warp Records ( along with Trent Reznor's label Nothing Records ).

The field marshal never spared himself, bivouacking in the snow with his men, and Carlyle records that private soldiers made rough shelters over him as he slept.

In July 2004, Carlyle formed DHS Technologies LLC, when it became a major investor in DHS Systems, the manufacturer of Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter, or DRASH, military shelters and support equipment, and Reeves EMS emergency medical supplies.

* Thaksin Shinawatra, former Prime Minister of Thailand ( twice ), former member of the Carlyle Asia Advisory Board until 2001 when he resigned upon being elected Prime Minister.

Carlyle later said, when Mitchel was on trial, " Irish Mitchel, poor fellow … I told him he would most likely be hanged, but I told him, too, that they could not hang the immortal part of him.

His membership on the Canadian advisory board of the Carlyle Group drew adverse media attention ; the media ceased pursuing the issue when McKenna explained that the board was established to advise on a Canadian investment fund that the group never created and that the board had never become active.

The conflict discouraged Froude from continuing his biography of Carlyle, as he wrote in 1881, " So much ill will has been shown me in the case of the other letters that I walk as if on hot ashes, and often curse the day when I undertook the business.

The Avery Wolf was referenced in the film The Mask ( 1994 ), when Stanley / The Mask ( performed by Jim Carrey ) briefly transforms into him while watching Tina Carlyle perform in a Red Hot Riding Hood-like performance, howling and whistling at her and then banging his head with a mallet.

Carlyle apart, the so-called Whigs were predominantly Christian, predominantly Anglican, thinkers for whom the Reformation supplied the critical theatre of enquiry when considering the origins of modern England.

During a prolonged battle with Octavius and Spider-Man, Carlyle was defeated when Doc Ock ripped open his suit, allowing Spider-Man to fill Carlyle's suit with webbing, although Doc Ock informed his enemy that he only did this to hurt Carlyle rather than to help Spider-Man.

He was brought up by his father after his mother left when Carlyle was four years old.

While a price of $ 4 billion was initially discussed, in August when the private equity firm Carlyle Group emerged as the likely acquirer, the price under consideration was said to be $ 3. 3-3. 4 billion.

If, indeed, Burke did make the statement Carlyle attributes to him, the remark may have been in the back of Carlyle's mind when he wrote in his French Revolution ( 1837 ) that " A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up ; increases and multiplies, irrepressible, incalculable.

In volume one of his French Revolution, Thomas Carlyle describes the death of Lally as a judicial murder, reporting that Lally was driven to execution gagged to prevent his crying out against the injustice, and that when Lally's son came of age, he sought to have his father's name cleared in the Parlement de Paris.

Panizzi never forgot the slight and when Carlyle, then working on the biography of Cromwell, requested the use of a private room at the library for his researches, the request was predictably denied.

According to Newsweek, George W. Bush couldn't have been involved with the Carlyle Group, which owned BDM, when the $ 1. 18 billion deal was made, because " former president Bush didn't join the Carlyle advisory board until April, 1998 — five months after Carlyle had already sold BDM to another defense firm.

But in fact, the Bush-Carlyle relationship began eight years earlier when the Carlyle Group put George W. Bush on the board of one of its subsidiaries, Caterair, in 1990.

Her friendship with the Carlyles began in April 1840, when in a state of depression over a love affair and her father's mortal illness, she wrote to Thomas Carlyle that she had lost her faith in God.

Seated at a similar table, he reacts to his first sight of Cameron Diaz's torch-singer character Tina Carlyle by mimicking many of the same cartoonish " wild takes " ( achieved through the use of CGI ), and his head even morphs into that of a cartoon wolf when he wolf-whistles and howls before bashing himself on the head with a mallet.

Bain, along with partners Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, would later negotiate a lower price ($ 8. 5 billion ) when the initial stages of the subprime mortgage crisis caused lenders to seek to renegotiate the terms of the acquisition financing.

On 4 November 1905, when he was a fourth year student of Ripon College, Calcutta, he took initiative to form the Anti-Circular Society in protest against the circular issued by R. W. Carlyle, then Chief Secretary of the Government of Bengal instructing Magistrates and Collectors to take stern measures against the students involved in politics.

She appears to be infatuated with Cecile Carlyle ( She screams his name when she dies.

During these years she was befriended by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and, after securing sponsorship to travel for research to England, in May 1853, met with Thomas Carlyle, who though intrigued, shrieked loudly as he heard her exposition.

The vigour of his thought won admiration from Henry James, Sr. ( father of the novelist ) and from Ralph Waldo Emerson, through whom he met Thomas Carlyle and James Anthony Froude ; and his speculation further attracted Alfred Tennyson, the Oliphants and Edward Maitland.

During the 14 months he was in England he met many interesting people, and became in particular friendly with Carlyle and his wife.

Aird was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he met John Wilson, Thomas Carlyle and James Hogg, as well as other men of letters.

He was considered a very talented man, witty, popular and generous, and is described by Carlyle as " the genialest radical I have ever met ".

At the airport he is met by Felix DeSouza ( Robert Carlyle ), a local " Fixer " who has been sent by his boss Leopold Durant ( Ricky Tomlinson ), head of a local criminal organization, in exchange for two football tickets to the sold-out Liverpool versus Manchester United game.

A translation of Goethe's Faust, which he published in 1834, met with considerable success, winning the approbation of Carlyle.

He discovered a socialist bookshop in Newcastle, where he met many like-minded people, and read books on economics and society, including those of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin.

Azimullah lodged with the Duff Gordons at their home in Esher, and in Lucie's company may have met her friends Dickens, Carlyle, Meredith, Tennyson, Browning and Thackeray ( though there is no direct evidence ).

On his death in 1776 the earldom and lordships of Maxwell and Maxwell, Eskdale and Carlyle are considered to have become extinct.