WorkThomas Carlyle
Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), No. 1: 'The Present Time' (1 February 1850)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · 1850
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“Have you seen Carlyle's remarks about the eighteen million Bores his American Cousins?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
“Yes I shall like to go back and see our "eighteen millions of bores," with their rail-roads, electric telegraphs, mass movements and ridiculous dilettant phobias, but with ever successful rush and bang.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.