 | Thucydides - 1874 - 738 pages
...different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from deficient memory, sometimes from deficient impartiality. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear,...in the course of human things must resemble if it does not 14 reflect it, I shall be content. In fine I have written my work to be a possession for all... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1914 - 640 pages
...arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear,...in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1914 - 654 pages
...sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. The absence of romance in my his-' r ~ tory will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest;...in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is... | |
 | Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell - Anthropology - 1917 - 274 pages
...38 V. EARLY SKULL-TYPES OF THE HUMAN GROUP . . 44 MAP — PRIMARY Foci OF CIVILIZATION . . page 103 THE absence of romance in my history will, I fear,...in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. THUCYDIDES. MODERN MAN AND HIS FORERUNNERS CHAPTER I THE PROBLEMS... | |
 | Harold Stearns - History - 1922 - 612 pages
...cool head. We mean Thucydides. In his foreword to the History of the Peloponnesian War he wrote: " The absence of romance in my history will, I fear,...detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the... | |
 | Guy Theodore Wrench - History - 1926 - 486 pages
...realism. " The absence of romance," he wrote (Book I., chapter i., Richard Crawley's translation), " in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from...interpretation of the future, which in the course of nature must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content." Such a statement presages a sober... | |
 | Horace West Household - Greece - 1927 - 232 pages
...for the student, for those who would be statesmen. "The absence of romance in my history," he said, "will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest;...in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1917 - 730 pages
...history is summed up in the remarkable passage in an early chapter of his work in which he speaks of ' those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the...in the course of human things must resemble, if it does not reflect, it.' He makes it clear that the essential cause of the resemblance lies in human... | |
 | Ernst Cassirer - Social Science - 1946 - 320 pages
...conception of history. The elimination of the "fabulous" was one of his first and principal concerns. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear,...in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. My history has been composed to be a possession for all time,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...are unconscious of their perennial domination. We are not yet of those for whom Thucydides wrote, ' inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past...in the course of human things must resemble, if it does not reflect, it.' HW HOUSEHOLD. _ 1926 CORRESPONDENCE •THE MYTHS OF WAR' To the Editor of THE... | |
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The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest ; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human... 
