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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841 and based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840. The lectures, which glorified great men throughout history, were enormously popular. In the essays he discusses different types of heroes and.
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Jul 26, 2008 · ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle Transcriber's Note: The text is taken from the printed "Sterling Edition" of Carlyle's Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications made in the etext version: Italicized text is delimited by underscores, thusly. The footnote (there is only one) has been ...
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical figures.
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On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History. Thomas Carlyle. Chapman and Hall, 1840 - Psychology - 303 pages. Preview this book » Selected pages. Title Page. Table of...
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History is Carlyle’s literary reconstruction of a series of six public lectures, delivered between May 5 and 22, 1840, which were the culmination of his four-year experiment as a public lecturer. Considering his distrust of cant, his puritanically inspired phobia about the “swim gloat” of ...
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