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... past , and not derived from interpretations of the book of Daniel or anticipations of the Last Judgement . I need hardly remind you that as early as the reign of James I English historians had begun , a little hesitantly , to speak in ...
... past , and not derived from interpretations of the book of Daniel or anticipations of the Last Judgement . I need hardly remind you that as early as the reign of James I English historians had begun , a little hesitantly , to speak in ...
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... past is past ; a thousand years are as yesterday , and yesterday as a thousand years . The limits are in the nature of the historian , and in the degree of his imaginative power . Moreover , unless we are aiming at a non ...
... past is past ; a thousand years are as yesterday , and yesterday as a thousand years . The limits are in the nature of the historian , and in the degree of his imaginative power . Moreover , unless we are aiming at a non ...
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... past . We never see the past as ' a painted ship upon a painted ocean ' . We see it as from an aeroplane one may catch glimpses of land under a break in the clouds . Already our definition of a ' middle age ' comes near to including in ...
... past . We never see the past as ' a painted ship upon a painted ocean ' . We see it as from an aeroplane one may catch glimpses of land under a break in the clouds . Already our definition of a ' middle age ' comes near to including in ...
Contents
LIST OF FELLOWS | 7 |
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL July | 11 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
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