HISTORY
Happy is the nation without a history.
History is a pageant, not a philosophy.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
The dignity of history.
What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great? Byron—Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 48. </poem>
And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 108.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise,
and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
CARLYiiE—Cromwell's Letters and Speeches.
Introduction. Ch. I.
History, a distillation of rumor.
Carlyle—French Revolution. Pt. I. Bk. VII.
Ch.V.
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
Carlyle—Essays. On History.
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| text = <poem>In a certain sense all men are historians.
Carlyle—Essays. On History.
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is
also the first distinct product of man's spiritual
nature; his earliest expression of what can be
called Thought.
Carlyle—Essays. On History.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Carlyle—Latter Day Pamphlets. 405.
All history is a Bible—a thing stated in words
by me more than once.
Carlyle—Quoted in Froude's Early Life of
Carlyle.
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in
History-Books.
Carlyle—Life of Frederick the Great. Bk.
XVI. Ch. I.
Que voulez-vous de plus? H a invents l'histoire.
What more would you have? He has invented history.
Madame Du Deffand of Voltaire, who was
accused by critics of lack of invention. See
Fourier—L'Esprit dans Histoire. P. 141.
The contact with manners then is education;
and this Thucydides appears to assert when he
says history is philosophy learned from examples.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus—Ars Rhetorica.
XI. 2. P. 212. (Tauchnitz Ed.) See
Thucydides—Works. I. 22.
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| text = <poem>Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benj. Disraeli—Speech. May, 1865.
There is properly no history, only biography.
Emerson—Essays. History.
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The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare
advantage of furnishing very few materials for
history, which is indeed little more than the
register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of
mankind.
Gibbon—Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (1776) Ch. III.
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And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 16.
The long historian of my country's woes.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. III. L. 142
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History casts its shadow far into the land of
song. f
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Ballads.
They who live in history only seemed to walk
the earth again.
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| work = The Belfry of Bruges. St. 9.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having
descended below the dignity of history.
Macaulay—History of England. Vol. I.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
Montesquieu.
(History] hath triumphed over Time, which
besides it, nothing but Eternity hath triumphed
over.
Sir Walter Raleigh—The History of the
World. Preface.
In a word, we may gather out of history a
policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men's forepassed
miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings.
Sir Walter Raleigh—History of the World
Preface. Par. EX.
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