 | Thucydides - Greece - 1822 - 576 pages
...former; and in whom ([ believe with many others) the faculty of writing history is at the highest. For the principal and proper work of history being to...instruct, and enable men by the knowledge of actions passed, to bear themselves prudently in the present, and providently towards the future, there is not... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1823 - 622 pages
...principal and proper work of history being to instruct, and enable men by the knowledge of actions passed, to bear themselves prudently in the present, and providently...it, than this of my author. It is true, that there be many excellent and profitable histories written since; and in some of them, there be inserted very... | |
 | University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...Attic Greek, and explain the proverb. Second Paper. I. Translate the following into Greek Prose : " The principal and proper work of history being to...that doth more fully and naturally perform it than my author. For he is accounted the most politique historiographer that ever writ ; seeing that he filleth... | |
 | Richard Sharp - English literature - 1834 - 326 pages
...(what I shall now copy) a passage from Hobbes's remarkable preface to his translation of Thucydides. " The principal and proper work of history being " to...it than this of " my author. It is true, that there be many excellent " and profitable histories written since ; and in some " of them there be inserted... | |
 | Richard Sharp - English literature - 1834 - 290 pages
...(what I shall now copy) a passage from Hobbes's remarkable preface to his translation of Thucydides. "The principal and proper work of history being "...it than this of my author. " It is true, that there be many excellent and profitable " histories written since; and in some of them, there be " inserted... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Greece - 1843 - 590 pages
...former; and in whom (I believe with many others) the faculty of writing history is at the highest. For the principal and proper work of history being to...not extant any other (merely human) that doth more naturally and fully perform it, than this of iny author. It is true, that there be many excellent and... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 564 pages
...former, is but a picture of history ; the former without the latter, unapt to instruct. The principle and proper work of history, being to instruct, and enable men by their knowledge of actions past, to bear themselves prudently in the present, and providently towards... | |
 | George Alsop - Maryland - 1869 - 194 pages
...former, is but a picture of history ; the former without the latter, unapt to instruct. The principle and proper work of history, being to instruct, and enable men by their knowledge of actions past, to bear themselves prudently in the present, and providently towards... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 pages
...former, and in whom (I believe with many others) the faculty of writing history is at the highest. For the principal and proper work of history, being to...perform it than this of my author. It is true that there be many excellent and profitable histories written since, and in some of them there be inserted very... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 680 pages
...published in 1634, has a very similar expression to that in the text : ' Theprincipall and proper worke of History being to instruct and enable men by the knowledge of actions past, to beare themselues prudently in the present, and prouidently towards the Future, there is not extant... | |
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For the principal and proper work of history, being to instruct and enable men, by the knowledge of actions past to bear themselves prudently in the present, and providently towards the future... 
