[History is] little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
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You are taking both Henry Adams and Edward Gibbon, who were both famous Historians out of context. But hey what's new.
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.
Edward Gibbon
He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!
Gottfried Benn
History itself touches only a small part of a nation's life. Most of the activities and sufferings of the people ... have been and will remain without written record.
E. L. Wood word
Edward Gibbon
He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!
Gottfried Benn
History itself touches only a small part of a nation's life. Most of the activities and sufferings of the people ... have been and will remain without written record.
E. L. Wood word
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
Henry Adams
History: an accdunt mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
Edmund Burke
Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
Henry Adams
History: an accdunt mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.
Paul Valery
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Thomas Carlyle
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley
The things that we know about the past may be divided into those which probably never happened, or those which do not much matter. Dean Inge
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
Romain Rolland
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
Goethe
The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
J.H. Plumb
Paul Valery
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
Thomas Carlyle
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley
The things that we know about the past may be divided into those which probably never happened, or those which do not much matter. Dean Inge
History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.
Romain Rolland
In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
Goethe
The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
J.H. Plumb
WWG, is so dumbfounded now he can't even use his own words, should he screw it up, he tries to make others snippets to buttress his leaky dingy and then he can't even do that right, as they have little to do with thread. I love it. All he did was google quote and use some that he thinks are relevant. It only show how disconnected and shallow as an oil slick he is.
If you graduated from university, it just shows sometimes some schools will graduate some just to get rid of them.
There is indeed Chutzpah to someone posting that they don't know know very much history and could care less, and seeming this as a point of pride, yet then posting in treads dealing with history and politics.
Imagine if someone said the same about physics or cosmology.
Reading them had me think that drowning man will grab at anything to stay afloat. I hear you swim much better without plastic clogs on.
he type of criminals commonly knighted by the Royals
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/20122712105151989.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/20122712105151989.html
Seemingly you don't know any better, Siobhan Courtney should: Frederick Goodwin's knighhood was on the political rather than personal gifts side of the Honours List and he was nominated by the British Prime Minister of the Day Tony Blair.
It was on the radio - CBC's Ontario noon call in show and the guy who quoted it was an abolishionist...how can I look that up?
I do note that in the poll you presented, Quebec was the most anti monarchist region. Funny, when I made that point on an earlier thread, you claimed it was not true.
The point being that the french do not relate to the Queen of England as their head of state, and it would be good for national unity if we dropped the royalty.
Nice try Blackcock.....you mistakenly assume that because the 2 of you continue yammering, that the 10 of us have given up due to the force of your arguments. We leave you to your Royal Tea Service because the battle is over and the victorious have moved on, leaving you blabbering to Aaaaardvark incoherently.
Ten people on TERB, wow, that is a representative polling sample if I've ever heard of one
