 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...useful Ï What do we mean, when we say that one past event is important, and another insignificant 1 No past event has any intrinsic importance. The knowledge...calculations with respect to the future. A history which docs not serve this purpose, though it may be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions, is as... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...useful ! What do we mean, when we say that one past event is important, and another insignificant 1 h E j n mmjnj m c c lQjRj k(n n n n g m|k7h ]ymOmGl}T k g l `wQxQ l lfn*nsn}n k1i f]l n n n nxmLmVne-aJ \+m,m a n k ( docs not serve this purpose, though it may be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions, is as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...less dignified, or less useful 7 What do we mean, when we say that one past event is important, anil another insignificant? No past event has any intrinsic...calculations with respect to the future. A history which docs not serve this purpose, though it may be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions, is as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...acknowledged. But would it be less dignified, or less useful ? ' What do we mean, when we say that one pajfc uch as those which we have been considering, haj been...opinions with respect to ancient history. They have docs not serve this purpose, though it rnav be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions, is as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...died a martyr to ceremony, because the proper dignitaries were not at hand to render him assistance, i That history would be more amusing if this etiquette...calculations with respect to the future. A history which docs not serve this purpose, though it may be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions, is as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...useful 1 What do we mean, when we say that one past event is important, and another insignificant 1 No past event has any intrinsic importance. The knowledge...calculations with respect to the future. A history which docs not serve this purpose, though it may be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions, is as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...useful ? What do we mean, when w& say that one past event is important, and another insignificant 1 ty than Mr. Mitford. We willingly acknowledge the obligations which forjn just calculations with respect to the future. A history wfeich does not. serve this purpose,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it beneath the dignity of men who describe the revolutions of nations to dwell on the details which constitute...of it is valuable only as it leads us to form just calculationswith respect to the future. A history which does not serve', this purpose, though it may... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...more amusing if this etiquette were relaxed will, we suppose, be acknowledged. But would it be le>s dignified or less useful ? What do we mean when we...history which does not serve this purpose, though it mny be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions, is as useless as the series of turnpike-tickets... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 460 pages
...contempt for the writers of memoirs. They think it beneath the dignity of men who describe the revolutions of nations to dwell on the details which constitute...calculations with respect to the future. A history H 2 which does not serve this purpose, though it may be filled with battles, treaties, and commotions,... | |
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Spain, who died a martyr to ceremony because the proper dignitaries were not at hand to render him assistance. That history would be more amusing if this etiquette were relaxed will, we suppose, be acknowledged. But would it be less dignified or less... 
