 it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. Now, if this maxim be sound, the history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral.  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Pagina 1741927Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - 1883 - 340 pagina’s
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical, object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusion ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit the general tendency of English... | |
 | Cambridge Philological Society - 1884 - 630 pagina’s
...that History, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...history of England ought to end with something that may be called a moral." Mr Sweet would extend the application of these remarks to the science of language,... | |
 | 1884 - 838 pagina’s
...that history should be " scientific in its method," but " should pursue a practical object. That is it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present, and his forecast of the future " (p. 1). And again : " ... it is with the rise and development of states that history deals " (p.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1884 - 666 pagina’s
...Seelcy, “while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present and his forecast of the future ;“ and again, “In history everything depends on turning narra.. tive into problems. . . . Now modern... | |
 | 1884 - 842 pagina’s
...that history should be " scientific in its method," but " should pursue a practical object. That is it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present, and his forecast of the future " (p. 1). And again : " ... it is with the rise and development of states that history deals " (p.... | |
 | 1885 - 850 pagina’s
...history, while it should be sci¿ entific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral.” This, It must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely... | |
 | 1885 - 932 pagina’s
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object—that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral." This, it must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 pagina’s
...history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral.' This, it must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely... | |
 | James Platt - 1888 - 224 pagina’s
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object—that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral." (Profkssor Seeley.) History is a science and should be read and studied to help us in our conduct to-day,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1888 - 1260 pagina’s
...reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his views of the present and his forecast of the future. The history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusions ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit the general tendency of English... | |
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