...Still, we cannot resist giving a short quotation from the first page of Carlyle's " Lectures" : — "As I take it, universal history, the history of what...the history of the great men who have worked here." Now read Macanlay : — " Society, indeed, has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its...

...of these natural opportunities his greatest industrial influence has been felt. As Carlyle tells us, "universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here." So, indeed, is a narraWILLIAM G. BADGER, President, Bunker Hill Association. tivc of the influence...

...Conte. BERKELEY, CAL. 0 JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN, 1803-1886.1 " As I take it," says Thomas Carlyle, " universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here. They were 1 The Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin, DD, LL. D. By Theodore Appel, DD Philadelphia...

...of the facts of history in their relations to the past and present: " As I take it," says Carlyle, " 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. They were the leaders of men, these great...

...truth ; it must be supplemented by Carlyle's idea, that " the history of what man has accomplished is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here." Again it is true that an idea, to be successful, must be in harmony with surrounding conditions, and...

...Remarks by Dr. WW Johnston. The great apostle of hero worship has said that " Universal history ... is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here. . . . All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result,...

...give it at present. A large topic; indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what...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,...

...succeeding generations. Tims do we enter into the past and begin the study of history. Carlyle says : " Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of luen, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and, in a wide sense, creators...

...founts. I fully agree with Mr. Carlyle — it seems to me the most valuable lesson he taught — that "universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is, at the bottom, the history of the great meu who have worked here : " that all " things which we see standing...

...da lungi e col cannocchiale. Il i Di questa teoria il più caldo sostenitore fu TOMMASO CARLYLE. « Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottoni thè History of the Great Men who bave worked nere. They were the leaders of men, these great...