 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 682 pages
...published in 1634, has a very similar expression to that in the text : ' The principal! and proper worke of History being to instruct and enable men by the knowledge of actions past, to beare themsclues prudently in the present, and prouidently towards the Future, there is not extant... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1886 - 328 pages
...this translation, because he thought that inasmuch as it is the principal and proper work of History to instruct and enable men, by the knowledge of actions...in the present and providently towards the future, this particular History of Thucydides was useful, because the Historian showed the evils of democracy,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...this translation, because he thought that inasmuch as it is the principal and proper work of History to instruct and enable men, by the knowledge of actions...in the present and providently towards the future, this particular History of Thucydides was useful, because the Historian showed the evils of democracy,... | |
 | 1891 - 644 pages
...former, and in whom (I believe with many others) the faculty of writing history is at its 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... | |
 | History - 1922 - 656 pages
...dealing more particularly with history, in the preface to his translation of Thucydides, he writes of " the principal and proper work of history being to instruct and enable men, by knowledge of actions past, to bear themselves 1 Leviathan, c. xlvi. 2 Ibid. c. xv. prudently in the... | |
 | History - 1922 - 650 pages
...dealing more particularly with history, in the preface to his translation of Thucydides, he writes of " the principal and proper work of history being to instruct and enable men, by knowledge of actions past, to bear themselves 1 Leviathan, c. xlvi. * Ibid. c. xv. * The reference... | |
 | American essays - 1925 - 878 pages
...pluck perquisites from a patron, for in the foreword to his readers he insists that, 'the principle and proper work of history being to instruct and enable...themselves prudently in the present and providently for the future, there is not extant any other, merely human, that doth more naturally and fully perform... | |
 | Anthony Pagden - History - 1987 - 380 pages
...the translation of Thucydides. Hobbes wrote about Thucydides's conception of the aim of history that: the principal and proper work of history being to...not extant any other (merely human) that doth more naturally perform it, than this of my author.12 Hobbes, however, did not conceive of history in terms... | |
 | Thucydides - History - 1989 - 644 pages
...former; and in whom (1 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 my author. It is true, that there be many excellent and... | |
 | Michael G. Fry - Political Science - 1992 - 348 pages
...the most part we were right. Michael Graham Fry Thucydides and International History LARRY PRATT 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 my author. . . . Thucydides is one, who, though he never... | |
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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... 
