 | 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 sider
...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 sider
...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 in this world,...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... | |
 | 1841 - 414 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1861 - 448 sider
...worthy of * For instance in the Lectures, page 1, and passim ' For, as I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world,...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 sider
...indeed an illimitable one, wide F2 as Universal history ; for, as I take it, Universal history, — the history of what man has 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,... | |
 | 1848 - 588 sider
...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 in the world, is the realization of thoughts that dwell in great men.... | |
 | 1849 - 736 sider
...of Nature" — comes forth to destroy the old and to found a new dispensation. " Universal History, the History of what man has accomplished in this world,...the History of the Great Men who have worked here. These were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,... | |
 | John Foster, William Wallace Everts - 1849 - 342 sider
...times, and are felt in this remote part of the globe. A quaint writer has said, " Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom but the history of what great men have done in it." Republics, no less than monarchies, have been regulated... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 sider
...°f Nature" — comes forth to destroy the old and to found a new dispensation. ' Universal History, the History of what man has accomplished in this world, is at ottoro the History of the Great Men who have worked here. These were the leader* of men, these great... | |
 | 1855 - 494 sider
...be regarded as the world's gallery of great men, for, as Thomas Carlyle remarks, " Universal history is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here." All nations, whether ancient or modern, have had their great men ; and whatever period of time is studied,... | |
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I take it, 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. 
