 I do not deny but history is very useful, and very instructive of human life ; but if it be studied only for the reputation of being an historian, it is a very empty thing ; and he that can tell all the particulars of Herodotus and Plutarch, Curtius and...  The Life of John Locke - Page 361by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lord Peter King King - 1829 - 426 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to be preferred to the history of Robin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, and very...of them, may be an ignorant man with a good memory, and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas tales. And which is worse, the greatest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...the history of liobin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, und thematics purely his own, first demonstrated the motions and figures of the planets, t a historian, it is a very empty thing ; and he that can tell all tin; particulars of Herodotus und... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1834 - 414 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to be preferred to the history of Robin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, and very...if it be studied only for the reputation of being a historian, it is a very empty thing : and he that can tell all the particulars of Herodotus and Plutarch,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1853 - 444 pages
...fellow-seholars. " l do not deny," says Loeke, " but that history is very useful and very instruetive of human life ; but if it be studied only for the reputation of being a historian, it is a very empty thing." CONTENTS VOLUME FIRST. HISTORY OF LIBERT Y.... P ART I. THE... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to he preferred to the history of Robin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, and very...of them, may be an ignorant man with a good memory, and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas tales. And, which is worse, the greatest... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to be preferred to the history of Robin Mood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, and very...of them, may be an ignorant man with a good memory, and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas tales. And, which is worse, the greatest... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to be preferred to the history of Robin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, and very...of them, may be an ignorant man with a good memory, and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas tales. And, which is worse, the greatest... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to be preferred to the history of Robin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, and very...any other use of them, may be an ignorant man with a pood memory, and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas" tales. And, which is... | |
 | James McCrie - 1871 - 652 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to be preferred to the History of Robin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. I do not deny but history is very useful, and very...of them, may be an ignorant man with a good memory, and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas tales. And which is worse, the greatest... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...prudence, are not one jot to be preferred to the history of Robin Hood, or the Seven Wise Masters. working in laced waistcoats. There are no people whatever...and write. Sir, you must not neglect doing a tiling and with all his pains hath only filled his head with Christmas tales. And which is worse, the greatest... | |
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