 | Thomas Carlyle - 1839 - 466 σελίδες
...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...the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men. Not abstractions were they, not diagrams... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1843 - 552 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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...the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men. Not abstractions were they, not diagrams... | |
 | 1851 - 526 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 670 σελίδες
...to say civil things of le roman hùtorique, but he does say of Scott's historical novels that they have taught all men this truth, which looks like a...the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men. " Not abstractions were they, not... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 534 σελίδες
...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...the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, statepa|x;rs, controversies and abstractions of men. Not abstraction^ were they, not diagrams... | |
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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... 
