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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. "
Life of Thomas Carlyle - Page 100
by Richard Garnett - 1887 - 186 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 184

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...Selection. There are others — Carlyle may serve as their spokesman — who tell us, '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 : all things which we see standing accomplished...
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Sermons

Phillips Brooks - Sermons, American - 1838 - 394 pages
...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 the leadership of the leaders. We may go farther...
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WORKS.

Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...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,...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,...
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The Dublin Magazine, Volume 3

1841 - 414 pages
...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,...
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Calcutta Review, Volume 36

India - 1861 - 448 pages
...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,...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...
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Architectural maxims and theorems ... and Lecture on the education and ...

Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - 150 pages
...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 ; the modellers, patterns,...
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Pictorial Life of Andrew Jackson

John Frost - 1847 - 590 pages
...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, these great ones...
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Hood's Magazine, Volume 10

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....
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The American Whig Review, Volume 3; Volume 9

1849 - 736 pages
...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,...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,...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures

Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...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,...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,...
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