 | 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 ページ
...played by Natural Selection. There are others — Carlyle may serve as their spokesman — who tell us, 'Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...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,... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1838 - 394 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Foster, William Wallace Everts - 1849 - 344 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 736 ページ
...— 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... | |
 | 1854 - 534 ページ
...substance of the history of their age and generation. ' As I take it,' says he, in 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... | |
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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. 
