James Russell Lowell pointed out some faults, but wrote: "The figures of most historians seem like dolls stuffed with bran, whose whole substance runs out through any hole that criticism may tear in them; but Carlyle's are so real in comparison, that, if you prick them, they bleed."
James Russell Lowell remarquèt una errors, mas escriguèt: "Los personatges de fòrça istorians semblan a de monacas claufidas de bren, que tot lo contengut s'agota de cada trauc que la critia pòt esquiçar; mas aquestes de Carlyle son tan reals en comparson, que, los fissant, sagnan."WikiMatrix WikiMatrix