 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 páginas
...played by Natural Selection. There are others — Carlyle may serve as their spokesman — who tell us, 'Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is, at the bottom, the History of the Great Men who have worked here : all things which we see standing accomplished... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1838 - 394 páginas
...purpose, and, if possible, to be like him in some similarity of nature ? " As I take it," says Carlyle, " Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...is at bottom the history of the great men who have \T >rked here." So all absorbing seems in his philosophy the leadership of the leaders. We may go farther... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 páginas
...it at present. A large topic ; indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what...the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 páginas
...it at present. A large topic ; indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what...the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,... | |
 | 1841 - 414 páginas
...attempt. Thomas Carlyle has said, in his Lectures on Hero-worship, that "the history of whatever man hae accomplished in this world, is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here." But the masterly view« of human destiny, taken from such hills of vision, as truly great men furnish,... | |
 | 1843 - 1068 páginas
...them, — heroworship. " A large topic, indeed an illimitable one, wide ns universal history; for, as I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished, is at bottom the history of great men All things that we see standing accomplished in the world, are... | |
 | 1861 - 448 páginas
...places : * ' Every original man is worthy of * For instance in the Lectures, page 1, and passim ' For, as I take it, universal history, the history of what...bottom the history of the great men who have worked there.' 'notice — nay, in the long run, who and what else is?' Himself deficient in the faculty of... | |
 | Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - 150 páginas
...what work they did. " A large topic, indeed an illimitable one, wide F2 as Universal history ; for, as I take it, Universal history, — the history of...accomplished in this world, — is at bottom the history of great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men these great ones ; the modellers, patterns,... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 590 páginas
...assent to the doctrine which is thus eloquently laid down by one who has made heroes his study : " Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom, the History GREAT MEN. 15 of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones... | |
 | 1848 - 588 páginas
...the first of his brilliant and able lectures on " Hero Worship," speaking of great men, says : — " I take it Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in the world is at bottom, the history of the great men who have worked here. All that we see accomplished... | |
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Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. 
