Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, On
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Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, On, a course of six lectures by T.
Carlyle, delivered 1840, published 1841. In this series Carlyle elaborates his view that ‘Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of…Great Men’, and chooses for his examples The Hero as Divinity (e.g. Odin, the ‘Type Norseman’); The Hero as Prophet (e.g. Muhammad); The Hero as Poet (e.g.
Dante, Shakespeare); The Hero as Priest (e.g.
Luther,
Knox); The Hero as Man of Letters (e.g. Dr
Johnson,
Rousseau,
Burns); and The Hero as King (e.g.
Cromwell, Napoleon).
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; ...an expression meaning "you're putting me on." According to the menu, the phrase was coined in 1876 by one Petroleum V. Nasby. Sure it was.) The room - brick walls, an old tin ceiling painted barn-red, smallish tables packed close...
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Magazine article from: National Review; 8/18/2008; ; 700+ words
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Petroleum V. Nasby
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Nasby, Petroleum V.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Nasby, Petroleum V., pseudonym of D.R. Locke .
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Locke, David Ross
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...the Civil War as a humorist under the pseudonym Petroleum V. Nasby. The first Nasby letter appeared in the Findlay...1861), of which he was editor. “Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, late pastor uv the Church uv the New Dispensation...
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Findlay
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...NW Ohio, on the Blanchard River; inc. 1887. Petroleum products, tires, washing machines, heavy machinery...appeared (1861) the satiric antislavery letters of "Petroleum V. Nasby." The city is the home of Findlay College.
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Whitcher, Frances Miriam
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...collected in The Widow Bedott Papers (1856) and Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches (1867). In 1879 Petroleum V. Nasby dramatized the Widow Bedott sketches, preserving much of the original dialogue.
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