 But if he who desires to have before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, and of the like events which may be expected to happen hereafter in the order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall...  Scribner's Magazine ... - Сторінка 7301909Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | American Historical Association - 1900 - 902 стор.
...the, past an a key to the future, which in all human prolwbility will repeat or resemble the past. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten." Diligence, accuracy, love of truth, and impartiality lire merits commonly ascribed to Thucydides. and... | |
 | Edward Capps - 1901 - 516 стор.
...order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten. In these last words we may detect a covert criticism of Herodotus, who delighted in anecdotes and narrations... | |
 | Theodor Gomperz - 1901 - 658 стор.
...legendary issues had made his work less " fascinating," he spoke of it with strong but just self-respect as "an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten." * The strict sobriety in the demarcation of his purpose was reproduced by Thucydides when he came to... | |
 | Harold North Fowler - 1902 - 524 стор.
...order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.1 1 I, 22 ; Jowett's translation. There is no reason to doubt the truth and good faith of... | |
 | Harold North Fowler - 1902 - 532 стор.
...order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten.1 1 1, 22 ; Jowett's translation. There is no reason to doubt the truth and good faith of... | |
 | Charles William Super - 1907 - 120 стор.
...No wonder that in the consciousness of having honestly striven to set forth the truth he exclaims: "My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten." He accordingly proceeds to unfold before his readers the painful tragedy that ended in the overthrow... | |
 | Adrian Hoffman Joline - 1909 - 232 стор.
...entertaining paper about Edward Gibbon, expresses his belief that the historian of Rome's decline and fall thought with Thucydides "My history is an everlasting...a prize composition which is heard and forgotten". It is not a particularly novel observation, but a faded pamphlet lying before me is a reminder of the... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 370 стор.
...of the past as a key to the future, which in all human probability will repeat or resemble the past. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten." Diligence, accuracy, love of truth, and impartiality are merits commonly ascribed to Thucydides, and... | |
 | 1912 - 332 стор.
...order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten." Who is it that speaks with this new note of self-repression and utilitarian purpose ? A man who, at... | |
 | George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford - 1912 - 616 стор.
...order of human things, shall pronounce what I have written to be useful, then I shall be satisfied. My history is an everlasting possession, not a prize composition which is heard and forgotten." In contrast with the popular history of Herodotus, this work was composed for the general and statesman;... | |
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