Citations:plague-spot


 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. I, Phenomena
 * […] the Heavens overarch us only as an Astronomical Time-keeper; a butt for Herschel-telescopes to shoot science at, to shoot sentimentalities at: — in our and old Jonson’s dialect, man has lost the soul out of him; and now, after the due period, — begins to find the want of it! This is verily the plague-spot; centre of the universal Social Gangrene, threatening all modern things with frightful death.