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Letter "H" » Histories
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
| Keywords:
all but, biographical, eras, first rate, historical, Histories, literary, literary criticism, literary work, point of view, Political history, psychological, reflected, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, searchingly, second rate, texts
«A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.»
Author: Franklin Pierce
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
anomalies, anomaly, attempting, Histories, republic, The Histories
«The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.»
«Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social»
«Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
family history, Histories, minor, The Downs
«Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.»
«Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories make men wise.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Reading
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, contradict, Histories, take for, take for granted, weigh
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Humanity,
Logic,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
Morality,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
concepts, Histories, homesickness, ravage, ravaged, ravages, retain, scenes, withstanding
«Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
distill, distilled, distilling, distills, Histories, newspapers
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