 | Phillips Brooks - 1838 - 394 sayfa
...purpose, and, if possible, to be like him in some 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 sayfa
...present. A large topic ; 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 world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great... | |
 | 1861 - 448 sayfa
...Every original man is worthy of * For instance in 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 590 sayfa
...assent to the doctrine which is thus eloquently laid down by one who has made heroes his study : " Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom, the History GREAT MEN. 15 of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men,... | |
 | Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - 150 sayfa
...did. " A large topic, indeed an illimitable one, wide F2 as Universal history ; for, as I take it, Universal history, — the history of what man has accomplished in this world, — is at bottom the history of great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men these great ones... | |
 | 1848 - 588 sayfa
...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... | |
 | John Foster, William Wallace Everts - 1849 - 344 sayfa
...have extended to our times, and are felt in this remote part of the globe. A quaint writer has said, " Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom but the history of what great men have done in it." Republics, no less than monarchies, have... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 sayfa
...present. A large topic ; 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 world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great... | |
 | 1849 - 736 sayfa
...— another "Force of Nature" — comes forth 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... | |
 | 1855 - 494 sayfa
...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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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. 
