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historian
«The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.»
«The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.»
Author: Peter Conrad
| Keywords:
aggrandize, aggrandizing, historian, inevitability, innocuous, portent, promoting
«Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change --only to give stability to one beautiful moment.»
«The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.»
«Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
historian, Hun, Huns, insects, in vain, populate, populated by, populating, strives, swarm, swarming, swarms, tartar, Tartars, The Hun
«The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Historians,
Sincerity,
Truth
| Keywords:
historian, malice, moreover, partialities, partiality, Second law, second law of, suppress, suspicion, untruth, untruths
«The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Liberty; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, feudalism, historian, planted, The Philosopher