| Phillips Brooks - Sermons, American - 1838 - 394 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...wide as Universal History 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 pages
...an 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,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1841 - 408 pages
...wide as Universal History 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,... | |
| India - 1861 - 448 pages
...the Lectures, page 1, and 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... | |
| English fiction - 1848 - 588 pages
...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 pages
...to destroy the old and to 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 - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...wide as Universal History 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,... | |
| Great Britain - 1855 - 494 pages
...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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