 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1887 - 642 sider
...opposite view. ' Hero Worship ' (1840) is the apotheosis -Hero of the personal element in history. ' The history of what man has accomplished in this world...the history of the great men who have worked here.' Apart from its inculcation of this grand half-truth, the book is memorable as a protest against low... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1887 - 236 sider
...intelligence of their times, but whether deities, prophets, or simple men of letters, always heroes. " The history of what man has accomplished in this world...the history of the great men who have worked here." This directly challenged the prevalent theories of the day, the equality not only of rights but of... | |
 | 1887 - 616 sider
...the first month of school, was 1836. LITERARY DEPARTMENT. CARLYLE has said that " 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." This was a favorite doctrine of the... | |
 | 1887 - 548 sider
...briefly makes plain the fundamental differences between them. •• Universal history," says Carlyle, " the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at the liottom the history of the great men who have worked here." There is one view of the matter : here... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 192 sider
...indeed, an illimitable one; wide as universal history itself. (For, as I take it, universal \ history, the history of what man has accomplished in this \...is at bottom the history of the great men who have 1 •" worked here.] They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the m'odelers, the patterns, and... | |
 | Joseph H. McCullagh - 1889 - 236 sider
...biography of a good person inspires the living to fill their lives with good deeds. If, as Carlyle says, "the history of what man has accomplished in this...the history of the great men who have worked here," then this little book is no unimportant contribution to the history of the American people in the South... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1890 - 876 sider
...the individual. If called upon to choose between them, I would accept the dictum of Carlyle that " the history of what man has accomplished in this world...the history of the great men who have worked here," rather than the doctrine of individual effacement. The sphere of Stanley's influence is, I repeat,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1890 - 398 sider
...dramatic grouping; as a reformer, too arrogant and vituperative to be persuasive. WRITINGS. that ' the history of what man has accomplished in this world,...bottom the history of the great men who have worked there ; ' wonderfully picturesque and dramatic, much like a revolutionary epic. Sartor Resartus (1834),... | |
 | 1890 - 486 sider
...FREDERICK III. CLARK PRIZE ORATION. ,, T TNIVERSAL history, the history of what man has accomU plished in this world, is at bottom the history of the great men." Nowhere is this fact more clearly illustrated than in the history of Germany. Her condition in the... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache, Beatrix Lucia Catherine Egerton Tollemache - 1891 - 466 sider
...short quotation from the first page of Carlyle's " Lectures" : — "As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world,...the history of the great men who have worked here." Now read Macaulay : — " Society, indeed, has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its... | |
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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. 
