 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...LECTURE I. THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM : SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. [Tuesday, 5th May 1840.] WE have undertaken to discourse here for a little...evidently this is a large topic ; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to give it at present. A large topic ; indeed, an illimitable one... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1842 - 414 pages
...LECTURE I. [Tuesday, 5th May, 1840.] THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM : SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. WE have undertaken to discourse here for a little...; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human aifairs. Too evidently this is a large topic ; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...which is growing ererj- day less and less, and in a short time is lost for ever. " — DR. JOHNSON. " We have undertaken to discourse here for a little...what ideas men formed of them, what Work they did." — CARLTLI : HERO WORSHIP. Aix who were denizens of London — during the twenty years that preceded... | |
 | Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - 150 pages
...in his opening lecture on heroes, hero worship, and heroic in history, has the following words : " We have undertaken to discourse here for a little...what ideas men formed of them ; what work they did. " A large topic, indeed an illimitable one, wide F2 as Universal history ; for, as I take it, Universal... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...LECTURE I. [Tuesday, 5th May, 1840.] THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM I SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. WE have undertaken to discourse here for a little...evidently this is a large topic ; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to give it at present. A large topic ; indeed, an illimitable one... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 238 pages
...LECTURE I. [Tuesday, 5th May, 1840.] THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM : SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. WE have undertaken to discourse here for a little...history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did;—on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance ; what I call Hero-worship and the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...LECTURE I. [Tuesday, 5th May 1840.] THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM : SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. WE have undertaken to discourse here for a little...performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human aflairs. Too evidently this is a large topic ; deserving quite other treatment than we can expect to... | |
 | 1864 - 74 pages
...College Per THOMAS Carlyle begins a book, which is familiar to almost every student, by saying : " We have undertaken to discourse here for a little...call Hero-Worship and the Heroic in human affairs." In much the same spirit, but in a much more matter-of-fact way, let us discourse here of the great... | |
 | 1864 - 382 pages
...College $|er0THOMAS Carlyle begins a book, which is familiar to almost every student, by saying : " We have undertaken to discourse here for a little...world's business, how they have shaped themselves ia the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did; on Heroes, namely, and on... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...which is every day growing less and less, and in a short time is lost for ever. " — DR. JOUNSOH. " We have undertaken to discourse here for a little...what ideas men formed of them, what Work they did." — CARLTLE: Hero WonJap. IT is a pleasant task to write of one whose history is as a sound of trumpets... | |
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WE have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did ; — on Heroes, namely, and... 
