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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 ".
Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.
Some took a more benign view ; Thomas Carlyle in his book Sartor Resartus, wrote that a dandy was no more than " a clothes-wearing man ".
On the satirical side, Thomas Carlyle ( 1849 ) coined ' the dismal science ' as an epithet for classical economics, in this context, commonly linked to the pessimistic analysis of Malthus ( 1798 ).
For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.
The Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle suggested somewhat more serious English names in his 1837 work The French Revolution: A History, namely Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous, Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, and Fruitidor.
The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.
William Maccall, another Unitarian preacher, and probably an acquaintance of Smith, came somewhat later, although influenced by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, and German Romanticism, to the same positive conclusions, in his 1847 work " Elements of Individualism ".
This policy was summed up in Bonaparte's often-quoted phrase " La carrière ouverte aux talents ", careers open to the talented, or as more freely translated by Thomas Carlyle, " the tools to him that can handle them ".
" Thomas Carlyle and Oliver Cromwell ", in Proceedings Of The British Academy ( 2000 ) 105: pp. 131 – 170.
Punch enjoyed an audience including: Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Edward FitzGerald, Charlotte Brontë, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell.
From London he also wrote an endless series of letters to his agents in Europe and South America, and made friends with Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
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