 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 310 pages
...the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which inter-penetrates them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value." " In history," he says, "the facts are given, to find the principles ; and the writer who does not... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives...the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. 2470 Macaulay : Essays. History. (Edinburgh Recicm, May, 1828.) History, at least in its state of ideal... | |
 | Welsh - 1890 - 830 pages
...abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the maes derives its whole value : and the precious particles are generally combined with the baset in such a manпег that the separation is a task of the utmost difficuIty.-Zorf/J/eeoií/яу.... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent amongst them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value.' And again: 'No past event has any intrinsic importance. The knowledge of it is valuable only as it leads... | |
 | Historiography - 1900 - 178 pages
...the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives...the utmost difficulty. Here Thucydides is deficient. . . . Thucydides was undoubtedly a sagacious and reflecting man. This clearly appears from the ability... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1902 - 346 pages
...history. It is from the abstract truth which 'interpenetrates them, and lies latent amongst them ' l1ke gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole ' value.' And again : ' No past event has any intrinsic ' importance. The knowledge of it is valuable only ' as it... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - Church history - 1906 - 392 pages
...the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its value. — MACAULAY, Worhs, v. 131. 19 Die Gesetze der Geschichte sind eben die Gesetze der ganzen... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1910 - 344 pages
...dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which ' interpenetrates them, and lies latent amongst them ' like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole ' value.' And again : ' No past event has any intrinsic ' importance. The knowledge of it is valuable only ' as it... | |
 | Edward Rockliff - History - 1912 - 90 pages
...are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interprets them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value." Those who have had experience in teaching history will scarcely quarrel with what has been said in... | |
 | Charles Anson Ingraham - 1922 - 296 pages
...the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value. OUR historians neglect the art of narration, the art of interesting the affections and presenting pictures... | |
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Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value... 
