 | 2005 - 494 pages
...Carlyle's "great man" theory of history: "A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. .... | |
 | 2005 - 494 pages
...man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of [317] minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson and... | |
 | Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 pages
...Clarkson." "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, ". . . the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. . . . All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."... | |
 | Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 pages
...follow his Steps äs a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his virtue, that he confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An Institution is the lengthened shadow... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave 60 to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the... | |
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A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as,... 
