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Pagina 30
... historians and students of history to whom the high sounding , but often resultless achievements of the great are all , and the obscure story of the formation of a vital national character nothing ; yet they will not be neglected by ...
... historians and students of history to whom the high sounding , but often resultless achievements of the great are all , and the obscure story of the formation of a vital national character nothing ; yet they will not be neglected by ...
Pagina 38
... historians , who never linger except over the life of some favourite saint , or enlarge except upon some dubious miracle ; -there was really perhaps very little to tell . The first bishop , whose enormous see comprised Lindsey , the Fen ...
... historians , who never linger except over the life of some favourite saint , or enlarge except upon some dubious miracle ; -there was really perhaps very little to tell . The first bishop , whose enormous see comprised Lindsey , the Fen ...
Pagina 3
... historian will make use . But more important still , I take it , just at this moment , is the recognition of history as a serious branch of study which is involved in your enterprise ; more important still is your enrolment of ...
... historian will make use . But more important still , I take it , just at this moment , is the recognition of history as a serious branch of study which is involved in your enterprise ; more important still is your enrolment of ...
Pagina 5
... historian ; against the perverse alienation from everything present , modern , and living , which turns the historian into a mere antiquary . It seems to me that it would be eminently worthy of Birmingham , to make an effort to fill the ...
... historian ; against the perverse alienation from everything present , modern , and living , which turns the historian into a mere antiquary . It seems to me that it would be eminently worthy of Birmingham , to make an effort to fill the ...
Pagina 9
... historian , it will be said , is not a philosopher or reasoner , but a narrator . He has only to tell a story , and that being so , what other difference can there be between a bad and a good historian except that the one tells his ...
... historian , it will be said , is not a philosopher or reasoner , but a narrator . He has only to tell a story , and that being so , what other difference can there be between a bad and a good historian except that the one tells his ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 68 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pagina 73 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pagina 35 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Pagina 75 - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.
Pagina 51 - It is strange how every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes fear him ; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what...
Pagina 80 - The officers and men will remember what their country expects from them, and what a determined body of soldiers, inured to war, is capable of doing against five weak French battalions, mingled with a disorderly peasantry.
Pagina 65 - While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched...
Pagina 80 - Christian civilization, but by the license of a time when " every " man did what was right in his own eyes," — and when the maxim of them of old time still prevailed over every other consideration, — " Thou shalt love u thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.