This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic, lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte.

对托马斯·卡莱尔来说，这一切都有点资产阶级的味道。他的传记主要描写的是真正的英雄，马丁·路德、奥利弗·克伦威尔和拿破仑·波拿巴的一生。

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“YOU have been sat here too long for any good you have been doing, ” Oliver Cromwell famously declared, as he dissolved the Rump Parliament in 1653.

“基于曾经做的贡献，你们已经在这个位子上坐了足够长了”这是奥利弗科克伦威尔在1653年解散残余议会时的著名论断。

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More than two dozen individuals are mentioned, including Henry II and Becket, Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, Charles II and William III, Nelson and Wellington, Gladstone and Disraeli.

包括亨利二世与贝克特，查理一世与奥利弗·克伦威尔，查理二世与威廉三世，纳尔逊与威灵顿，格莱斯通与迪斯雷利在内的超过24位历史人物辉映其中。

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The theologians carried sandwiches but no coins, and the city of Saint Asaph was without great fascination, so they simply visited the once-Catholic cathedral to see the restoration of the intricately wood-carved choir stalls that Oliver Cromwell tried to destroy by using them as cattle pens.

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The canny heroism of a wild puck or male goat who alerted villagers to the arrival of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th Century is the supposed origin of the historic three-day Puck Fair in Killorglin, County Kerry every August, allegedly Ireland's oldest.

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