History. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

History


I will answer you by quoting what I have read, somewhere or other, in Dionysius Halicarnassensis. I think that history is philosophy teaching by examples. Bolingbroke.—On the Study and Use of History. Letter II. Vol. III. Page 323.	1
Read their history in a nation’s eyes. Gray.—Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 16.	2
There is a history in all men’s lives, Figuring the nature of the time deceas’d; The which observ’d, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured. Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part II. Act III. Scene 1. (Warwick to King Henry.)	3
1. And what’s her History? 2. A blank, my lord. Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 4. (The Duke and Viola.)	4
Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes! For now I see the true old times are dead. Tennyson.—Morte D’Arthur.	5