 | 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 pagine
...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 in the world are properly the outward material result, the practical... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pagine
...itself. For, as 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. They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,... | |
 | 1841 - 414 pagine
...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 pagine
...passim ' For, as 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 there.' 'notice — nay, in the long run, who and what else is?' Himself deficient in the faculty of... | |
 | 1848 - 588 pagine
...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. The... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pagine
...found a new dispensation. " 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. These were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pagine
...itself. For, as 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. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,... | |
 | 1855 - 494 pagine
...History, too, may 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,... | |
 | 1852 - 784 pagine
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 | 1854 - 534 pagine
...the opening discourse, ' 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... | |
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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. 
