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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly read more
History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?
What want these outlaws conquerors should have
But History's purchased page to call them great?
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
