3281. Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke St. John. 1678-1751. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	3281
AUTHOR:	Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke St. John (1678–1751)
QUOTATION:	I have read somewhere or other,—in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,—that history is philosophy teaching by examples. 1
ATTRIBUTION:	On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.

Note 1.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: “The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.” [back]

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