| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke St. John. (1678–1751) |
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| 1 | | I have read somewhere or other,—in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,—that history is philosophy teaching by examples. 1 |
| On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2. |
| 2 | | The dignity of history. 2 |
| On the Study and Use of History. Letter v. |
| 3 | | It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature’s God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. 3 |
| Letter to Mr. Pope. |
| | 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] | Note 2.
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones, book xi. chap. ii. Horace Walpole: Advertisement to Letter to Sir Horace Mann. Thomas B. Macaulay: History of England, vol. i. chap. i. [back] | Note 3.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 331. [back] |
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