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Chapter 4. Characteristics.
It were a piece of vain flattery to pretend that this Work on Clothes entirely contents us; that ...
Chapter 3. Reminiscences.
To the Author's private circle the appearance of this singular Work on Clothes must have occasion...
Chapter 2. Editorial Difficulties.
If for a speculative man, "whose seedfield," in the sublime words of the Poet, "is Time," no conq...
Chapter 1. Preliminary.
Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been bran...
Lecture VI. The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism.
[May 22, 1840.] We come now to the last form of Heroism; that which we call Kingship. The Comman...
Lecture V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns.
[May 19, 1840.] Hero-Gods, Prophets, Poets, Priests are forms of Heroism that belong to the old ...
Lecture IV. The Hero as Priest. Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism.
[May 15, 1840.] Our present discourse is to be of the Great Man as Priest. We have repeatedly en...
Lecture III. The Hero as Poet. Dante: Shakspeare.
[May 12, 1840.] The Hero as Divinity, the Hero as Prophet, are productions of old ages; not to b...
Lecture II. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam.
[May 8, 1840.] From the first rude times of Paganism among the Scandinavians in the North, we ad...
Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.
[May 5, 1840.] We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of a...
XI. Immortality
Wilt thou not ope thy heart to knowWhat rainbows teach, and sunsets show?Verdict which accumula...
X. Greatness
There is a prize which we are all aiming at, and the more power and goodness we have, so much mor...
IX. Inspiration
It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be ...
VII. Progress of Culture
Address Read before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, July 18, 1867. Nature spokeTo eac...
VI. Quotation and Originality
Old and new put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marke...
V. The Comic
“The glory, jest and riddle of the world.”POPE. “And if I laugh at any mortal thing’T is t...
IV. Resources
Go where he will, the wise man is at home,His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;Where h...
III. Eloquence
He, when the rising storm of party roared,Brought his great forehead to the council board,There...
II. Social Aims
When the old world is sterileAnd the ages are effete,He will from wrecks and sedimentThe fairer...
I. Poetry and Imagination
But over all his crowning grace,Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,Is the purging of his eyeT...