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Recensione dell'utente - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingOddly, not an inspiring book. There are six lectures filled with what I might call "Puffery" rather than information. Carlyle does have a theme, stating the "Great Man" theory, but it deals little ... Leggi recensione completa
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Recensione dell'utente - madepercy - LibraryThingThomas Carlyle's lectures On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History were delivered in 1840, and published as a book in 1841 by James Fraser, London. My version is a public domain reprint of ... Leggi recensione completa
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History, Volume 10 Thomas Carlyle Visualizzazione completa - 1907 |
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