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Statue of Thomas Carlyle in Chelsea Bust of Thomas Carlyle by Mario Raggi circa 1892, displayed at Chelsea Library George Eliot summarised Carlyle's impact in 1855: It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence: if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suttees on his funeral pile, it would be only like cutting ...
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. It lays out Carlyle's belief in the importance of heroic leadership.
The following is a list of the contents of the Critical and Miscellaneous Essays as they appear in the Centenary Edition (originally published 1896–1899), being the standard edition of the works of Thomas Carlyle. Volume I. C. G. Heyne. INTRODUCTION by Henry Duff Traill; Jean Paul Friedrich Richter [1827] Edinburgh Review, No. 91.
Thomas Carlyle Looking at the Duke of Buccleuch's Miniatures of Cromwell, his Wife and Daughter by Eyre Crowe, 1895. Carlyle was attracted to Cromwell due to their shared Protestant upbringing and biblical rhetorical style, as well as Cromwell's "sense of the divine vitality of the universe, his hostility to democracy, and his belief that heroes can be the agents of God's will."
The standard edition of Carlyle's works is the Works in Thirty Volumes, also known as the Centenary Edition.The date given is when the work was "originally published." ...
Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( Angels) the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaḤayyim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Sifr al-Ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is ...
Carlyle was deeply impacted by the Revolutions of 1848 and his journeys to Ireland in 1846 and 1849 during the Great Famine.After struggling to formulate his response to these events, he wrote to his sister in January 1850 that he had "decided at last to give vent to myself in a Series of Pamphlets; 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' is the name I have given them, as significant of the ruinous overwhelmed ...
The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall. Vol. I. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books (1831) Vols. II–IV. The French Revolution: A History (1837) Vol. V. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) Vols. VI–IX.