Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke St John Quotes on History
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I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
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They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
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The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it