 | 1884 - 734 pages
...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,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1887 - 236 pages
...intelligence of their times, but whether deities, prophets, or simple men of letters, always heroes. " The history of what man has accomplished in this world...the history of the great men who have worked here." This directly challenged the prevalent theories of the day, the equality not only of rights but of... | |
 | 1887 - 460 pages
...FEBRUARY, 1888. No. 5. HERO-WORSHIP. On the first page of Carlyle's book of Heroes, we find this statement: "As I take it Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in the world, is at bottom the Plistory of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of... | |
 | 1887 - 616 pages
...The enrollment, for the first month of school, was 1836. LITERARY DEPARTMENT. CARLYLE has said that " 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." This was a favorite doctrine of the... | |
 | 1887 - 548 pages
...briefly makes plain the fundamental differences between them. •• Universal history," says Carlyle, " the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at the liottom the history of the great men who have worked here." There is one view of the matter : here... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 202 pages
...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,... | |
 | thomas carlyle - 1888
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 192 pages
...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...is at bottom the history of the great men who have 1 •" worked here.] They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the m'odelers, the patterns, and... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1888 - 1260 pages
...E. CORPREW. Jndian Creek, Norfolk County, fa. Biography an Aid to History. Carlyle has said that " 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." This was a favorite doctrine of the... | |
 | Joseph H. McCullagh - 1889 - 236 pages
...biography of a good person inspires the living to fill their lives with good deeds. If, as Carlyle says, "the history of what man has accomplished in this...the history of the great men who have worked here," then this little book is no unimportant contribution to the history of the American people in the South... | |
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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. 
