 | Edmund Burke - 1884 - 694 páginas
...to her Colonies is always being attacked by the Liberal party. " History," says Professor Seeley, " while it should be scientific in its method, should...pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - 1883 - 340 páginas
...VIII. RECAPITULATION , 293 i LECTURE I. TENDENCY IN ENGLISH HISTORY. IT is a favourite maxim of mine that, history, while it should be scientific in its...pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1884 - 666 páginas
...relation to her Colonies is always being attacked by the Liberal party. " History," says Professor Seeley, "while it should be scientific in its method, should...pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1884 - 618 páginas
...to her Colonies is always being attacked by the Liberal party. "History," says Professor Seeley, " while it should be scientific in its method, should...pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1884 - 644 páginas
...that which is general is through that which is special." — Yager. "It is a favorite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object." — Seelty. "Das was heute Politik ist, gchOrt morgen der Geschichte an."— Broken. " Learn the Past... | |
 | 1885 - 932 páginas
...everybody has read, " The Expansion of England," which opens thus : — " It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its...pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | 1885 - 850 páginas
...which everybody has read, "The Expansion of England," which opens thus: "It is a favorite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its...pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 páginas
...everybody has read, " The Expansion of England," ' which opens thus : — " It is a favorite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its...pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 páginas
...which Mr. Morley professed at Birmingham. His book opens thus : — ' It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its...pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 páginas
...which Mr. Morley professed at Birmingham. His book opens thus : — 'It is a favourite ' maxim of mine that history, while it should ' be scientific in its...pursue a ' practical object — that is, it should not merely ' gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, ' but modify his view of the present and his... | |
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It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast... 
