 Secondly, however, we may say, these Historical Novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and others, till so taught : that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled...  Bentley's Miscellany - Pagina 49editat de - 1859Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1839 - 466 pagini
...inevitable : a great service, though an indireel one. Secondly, however, we may say, these historical novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a...were they, not diagrams and theorems ; but men, in buffer other coats and breeches, with color in their cheeks, with passions in their stomach, and the... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 552 pagini
...expressed by Carlyle, though with his usual quaintness of style : "We may aay these historical works have taught all men this truth, which looks like a...writers of history and others till so taught ; that the hy-gone ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state papers, controversies,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 464 pagini
...inevitable : a great service, though an indirect one. Secondly, however, we may say, these historical novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a...but men, in buff or other coats and breeches, with color in their cheeks, with passions in their stomach, and the idioms, features, and vitalities of... | |
 | 1851 - 526 pagini
...investigation, yet it is unquestionable that Sir Walter Scott was the first of modern writers " to teach all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...the world were actually filled by living men."')' This being the case, and the history of the manners and customs of bygone races of men being the acknowledged... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1851 - 776 pagini
...investigation, yet it is unquestionable that Sir Walter Scott was the first of modern writers " to teach all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...of history and others, till so taught, — that the bygoue ages of the world were actually filled by living men."1 If, however, the impulse to the pursuit... | |
 | 1856 - 490 pagini
...investigation, yet it is unquestionable that Sir Walter Scott was the first of modern writers " to teach all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...of the world were actually filled by living men."* 1 Report of the Transactions at the with the series of Annual Transactions ot Annual Meeting of the... | |
 | 1856 - 490 pagini
...investigation, yet it is unquestionable that Sir Walter Scott was the first of modern writers ".to teach all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...as unknown to writers of history and others, till BO taught — that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled by living men."5 1 Report of the... | |
 | 1858 - 860 pagini
...be unquestioning!}' quoted, that the author of leaiihoe was the first of modern writers " to teach all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...the bygone ages of the world were actually filled uy living men." An idea of the ways of life and style of living of even the highest classes in ancient... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 pagini
...we may say, these Historical Novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, arol yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and...were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, statepa|x;rs, controversies and abstractions of men. Not abstraction^ were they, not diagrams and theorems... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1870 - 802 pagini
...Mr. Carlyle ? Who has done so much to apply the lesson which Scott, as he says, first taught us — that the " bygone ages of the world were actually...state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men ? " If Scott would in old days — we still quote his critic — have harried cattle in Tynedale or... | |
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