| Thomas Stephenson Francis Battersby - 1879 - 144 str.
...Great- Man theory. For, while admitting the incorrectness of Mr. Froude's canon that "universal history is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here," and granting that, as in the case under observation, the great man generally " depends upon the antecedents... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1881 - 486 str.
...writes : — " 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." And this, not perhaps distinctly formulated, but everywhere implied, is the belief in which nearly... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Sargent - 1880 - 448 str.
...BY WILLIAM J. POTTER. THOMAS CARLYLE says, " The history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here." Henry Thomas Buckle says that in the history of mankind, as in the physical world, "all is order, symmetry... | |
| Joseph William Reynolds - 1881 - 482 str.
...CARLYLE says, "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...They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators. . . . This is an age that as it were denies the... | |
| 1881 - 534 str.
...Pert Ofle« »I Bortoe, MM Universal History, the history of. what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have...They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived... | |
| Edwin Doak Mead - 1881 - 158 str.
...history is a doctrine of election. "The history of what man has accomplished in this world," he says, " is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked here ; " and in explaining, for instance, German doings, in 1870, or a century before, he would speak only... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 str.
...influence of their coadjutors. " 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." " All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material... | |
| 1880
...flash of lightning. His dictum that history, " the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked there," finds here full scope. Here will also be found many of his marvellous similitudes ; his effective... | |
| William Graham - 1881 - 488 str.
...substantial truth in the view of a great writer that "the history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked there." '(' Herbert Spencer, it is true, lightly esteems the theory, and asks in reply — Whence comes... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 str.
...great men who have wrought : 'They were the leaders of men. these great ones; the modellers, pattern?, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men conirived to do or to attain; all things that we sec standing accomplished in the world are properly... | |
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