 | 1843 - 1068 sider
...accomplished in the world, are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into the world. . . . We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 590 sider
...accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and imbodiment, of thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into...may justly be considered, were the history of these. " Great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon... | |
 | Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - 150 sider
...accomplished in the world, are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of thoughts, that dwelt in the great men, sent into...may justly be considered, were the history of these. " One comfort is, that great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look however... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 sider
...Revolutionism . 175 LECTURE I. [Tuesday, 5th May, 1840.] THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM I SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. WE have undertaken to discourse here for...is a topic we shall do no justice to in this place ! JJ: One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are prof- -> itable company. We cannot look,... | |
 | 1849 - 1428 sider
...accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into...may justly be considered, were the history of these. ' He adopts the popular Progressive theory without question, and proceeds to talk of the rude ages... | |
 | 1854 - 534 sider
...accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into...justly be considered, were the history of these.' For his primary example of the hero, Mr Carlyle goes back to the pagan ages, and shews us how he conceives... | |
 | 1857 - 588 sider
...accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into the world." — Carlyk. " Lives of great men all remind ns We can make our lives sublime."— Lonpfellow. IN the... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 sider
...lumière éternelle dans un homme et dans « sa vie, cela précisément est ajouté aux éternités, into the world ; the soul of the whole world's history, it may be justly considered were the history of these. (On Heroes, p. 1.) 1 . Such a man is what we call an... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 sider
...accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into...of these. Too clearly it is a topic we shall do no sufficient justice to in this place ! One comfort is, that great men, taken up in any way, are profitable... | |
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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. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever... 
