| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 Seiten
...CONCEPTION OF HISTOET. I. • Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, 1* at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the 1 See this double praise in Wilhelm It 'eater. leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns,... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 514 Seiten
...poëtes, réformateurs, 1. On Heroes,t. l, p. 71. 2. Universal history, the history of what man bas accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have ivoi'ked bere. They were the leaders of men , these great ones ; the modellers, patterus, and in a... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 Seiten
...poetical tints, optics affirm only law-abiding transformations. § 4.—CONCEPTION OF HISTORY. I. ' Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, i -^ at bottom the History of the Great Heu who have worked here. They were the s v 408 MODERN AUTHORS.... | |
| 1872 - 806 Seiten
...persons and their doings. One who is conspicuous as the exponent of this view writes : " As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...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... | |
| 1872 - 798 Seiten
...persons and their doings. One who is conspicuous as the exponent of this view writes : " As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...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... | |
| 1872 - 848 Seiten
...and their doings. One who is conspicuous as the exponent of this view writes : — " As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...world, is at bottom the history of the great men who haveworked here." And this, not perhaps distinctly formulated, but everywhere implied, is the belief... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 528 Seiten
...and their doings. One who is conspicuous as the exponent of this view writes : — " As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...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... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 Seiten
...the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the See this double praise in Willielm leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sen?? creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain ; all things that... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 462 Seiten
...poetical tints, optics only prove transformations governed by a law. § 4. — CONCEPTION OF HISTORY. I. " Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense c-eators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain ; all things that we see... | |
| William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 304 Seiten
...large topic ; u indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. .For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modelers, patterns, and in 1 401. 2 448. » 496. * 157. « 444. « 315: ie little while. 7 This and... | |
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