 | William Smart - 1916 - 304 páginas
...Glasgow Herald, the Spectator, etc. CHAPTER I WHY SECOND THOUGHTS " 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... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - 1920 - 312 páginas
...go ill together. BURKE. XXIX THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND BY JR SEELEY. 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 - 1923 - 396 páginas
...that 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... | |
 | Carl Adolf Bodelsen - 1925 - 238 páginas
...belonged. The theory, to demonstrate which is the primary object of the lectures, is the following: history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. (2) It should not be a mere enumeration of dates and names, nor a mere romantic narrative, nor, as... | |
 | Carl Adolf Bodelsen - 1924 - 254 páginas
...belonged. The theory, to demonstrate which is the primary object of the lectures, is the following: history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object.(2) It should not be a mere enumeration of dates and names, nor a mere romantic narrative, nor,... | |
 | 1926 - 328 páginas
...conspirators, churls, and fanatics manage to supplant him." CHAPTER III EMPIRE HISTORY, says Sir John Seeley, should not only gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. This is the object of whatever historical details... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1927 - 914 páginas
...Introductory. "It is a favorite maxim of mine," writes Professor Seeley in his Expansion of England, "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... | |
 | Francois Bernier - 1996 - 570 páginas
...in Professor.!. 11. Seeley's dictum — to be found in his work, The Ejrjuiiixioii iff England — 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... | |
 | Friends General Conference (U.S.). General Conference - 1896 - 610 páginas
...OF QUAKERISM. An Englishman has said that " history, while it should be scientific in its methods, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should...modify his views of the present and his forecast of the future." It seems to me, in order to " modify our views of the present " and our "forecast of the future"... | |
 | 1884 - 594 páginas
...fascinating lectures — " history should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but...his views of the present, and his forecast of the future. The interest of English history ought therefore to deepen steadily to the close, and, since... | |
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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... 
