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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
That monstrous tuberosity...
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That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
Source: Teufelsdr?ckh, in Sartor Resartus, bk. 3, ch. 6 (1833 --34).
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.