Thomas Carlyle

W jakiejkolwiek epoce dziejów świata narodziłby się człowiek zdolny, to zawsze znajdzie dla siebie pole działania, zawsze znajdzie dość pracy; wszędzie bowiem, bez względu na to, gdzie i w jakich warunkach na świat przyjdzie, wszędzie spotka sprzeczności, które pogodzić należy, wszędzie istnieć będą trudności, które przezwyciężyć zdoła jeno...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago; some four or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were, as is evident, all or mostly written at the same time:- these also, though they are now become, in parts,...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The posting of the Five Armies this Winter- Five of them in Germany, not counting the Russians, who have vanished to Cimmeria over the horizon, for their months of rest- is something wonderful, and strikes the picturesque imagination. Such a Chain of Posts, for length, if for nothing else! From the centre...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls, - essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory; generally striving each to be on some terms of human neighborhood with those about him, but, - in spite of...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 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...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Seldom was there seen such a combination against any man as this against Friedrich, after his Saxon performances in 1756. The extent of his sin, which is now ascertained to have been what we saw, was at that time considered to transcend all computation, and to mark him out for partition, for suppression and...