What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a Man. . . by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
Source: Teufelsdr?ckh, in Sartor Resartus, bk. 2, ch. 10 (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.