See Also: Carlyle, Thomas(dictionary)
Carlyle, Thomas(encyclopedia)
Weanling - Horse Racing(gambling)
weanling(medicine)
weanling(dictionary)
Gilchrist, Percy Carlyle(encyclopedia)
gambling(encyclopedia)
gambling(dictionary)
gambling(medicine)
Gambling(law)

Weanling - Horse Racing (gambling) and Carlyle, Thomas (sh)


Weanling - Horse Racing (gambling)


A thoroughbred after being weaned and until he becomes a yearling on the New Year' s Day following his foaling.

Carlyle, Thomas (sh)




born Dec. 4, 1795, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scot.
died Feb. 5, 1881, London, Eng.

Scottish historian and essayist.

The son of a mason, Carlyle was reared in a strict Calvinist household and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He moved to London in 1834. An energetic, irritable, fiercely independent idealist, he became a leading moral force in Victorian literature. His humorous essay "Sartor Resartus" (1836) is a fantastic hodgepodge of autobiography and German philosophy. The French Revolution, 3 vol. (1837), perhaps his greatest achievement, contains outstanding set pieces and character studies. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) showed his reverence for strength, particularly when combined with the conviction of a God-given mission. He later published a study of Oliver Cromwell (1845) and a huge biography of Frederick the Great, 6 vol. (1858-65).


Carlyle, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1877; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London