On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History ...Chapman & Hall, 1897 - 255 pages |
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... Heroism ; the divine relation ( for I may well call it such ) which in all times unites a Great Man to other men ; and thus , as it were , not . exhaust my subject , but so much as break ground on it ! At all events , I must make the ...
... Heroism ; the divine relation ( for I may well call it such ) which in all times unites a Great Man to other men ; and thus , as it were , not . exhaust my subject , but so much as break ground on it ! At all events , I must make the ...
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... Heroism . Surely it seems a very strange - looking thing this Paganism ; almost inconceivable to us in these days . A bewildering , in- extricable jungle of delusions , confusions , falsehoods , and absurdities , covering the whole ...
... Heroism . Surely it seems a very strange - looking thing this Paganism ; almost inconceivable to us in these days . A bewildering , in- extricable jungle of delusions , confusions , falsehoods , and absurdities , covering the whole ...
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... Heroism ; in such artless , helpless , but hearty entire reception of a Hero by his fellow - men . Never so helpless in shape , it is the noblest of feelings , and a feeling in some shape or other perennial as man himself . If I could ...
... Heroism ; in such artless , helpless , but hearty entire reception of a Hero by his fellow - men . Never so helpless in shape , it is the noblest of feelings , and a feeling in some shape or other perennial as man himself . If I could ...
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... Heroism , That he looks through the shows of things into things . Use and wont , respectable hearsay , respectable formula : all these are good , or are not good . There is something behind and beyond all these , which all these must ...
... Heroism , That he looks through the shows of things into things . Use and wont , respectable hearsay , respectable formula : all these are good , or are not good . There is something behind and beyond all these , which all these must ...
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... Heroism , are ever rising higher ; not altogether that our reverence for these qualities , as manifested in our like , is getting lower . This is worth taking thought of . Sceptical Dilettantism , the curse of these ages , a curse which ...
... Heroism , are ever rising higher ; not altogether that our reverence for these qualities , as manifested in our like , is getting lower . This is worth taking thought of . Sceptical Dilettantism , the curse of these ages , a curse which ...
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