Historian

Examples

• But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The little that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few and simple words. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• These are facts that the historian of mankind is obliged to note with as little comment as possible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The historian is obliged to speculate about the contents of the head that wears a crown as best he can. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The present historian can give no certain details regarding the event. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Imagine the war done with, and a future historian giving an account of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The historian of political forms may see in the town meeting a forerunner of direct legislation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For some centuries the Turkish Empire and Central Asia and China are relatively neglected by the limelight of the European historian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Cantor, the historian, tells of a South African tribe which employed an unusual system of finger counting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This gives a false view of the mental processes of revolution; and it is the task of the historian to correct it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I should fancy so--except to the historian. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A subject like the tariff, for example, has absorbed an amount of attention which would justify an historian in calling it the incubus of American politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To the historian of the world the wanderings of Alexander have an interest of their own quite apart from the light they throw upon his character. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It need hardly be remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. Plato. The Republic.
• But historians must stand to the questions a politician can evade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Passing from the slumber of the middle ages, we are assured by some Spanish historians that one Blasco de Garay, in 1543, propelled a ship having paddle wheels by steam at Barcelona. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Some historians declare explicitly that there was a treaty to that effect. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Historians say that he Hellenized the east. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nearly all historians are disposed to regard the career of Alexander the Great as marking an epoch in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It may be presumed the historians of the American revolution will exhibit them in proper colours. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is the custom of historians to treat these struggles with extreme respect. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Emperor Maximilian I is still called the last of the knights; by German historians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The early historians Hecat?us and Herodotus travelled widely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was really none of the genius about which historians write so glibly in this decision. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But so did the Moslem historians, because of that mosque at Canton, and so did the Christian writers, because of the Nestorian envoys (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Italy was indeed at that time almost a desert; the Lombard historians assert they came into an empty country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And I suppose most of the owners of Americana are not historians either? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is nonsense for historians to write of the political instincts of the Romans or Carthaginians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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