John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3281 Henry
| NUMBER: | 3281 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke St. John (1678–1751) |
| QUOTATION: | I have read somewhere or other,—in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,—that history is philosophy teaching by examples. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2. |
| Note 1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: “The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.” [back] |