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" it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future. Now, if this maxim be sound, the history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 174
1927
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The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures

Sir John Robert Seeley - Great Britain - 1883 - 338 pages
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical, object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusion ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit the general tendency of English...
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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Issues 7-54

Cambridge Philological Society - Philology - 1884 - 630 pages
...that History, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...history of England ought to end with something that may be called a moral." Mr Sweet would extend the application of these remarks to the science of language,...
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The Modern Review, Volume 5

Religion - 1884 - 838 pages
...that history should be " scientific in its method," but " should pursue a practical object. That is it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present, and his forecast of the future " (p. 1). And again : " ... it is with the rise and development of states that history deals " (p....
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The Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1884 - 666 pages
...Seelcy, “while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present and his forecast of the future ;“ and again, “In history everything depends on turning narra.. tive into problems. . . . Now modern...
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The Modern Review, Volume 5

Religion - 1884 - 842 pages
...that history should be " scientific in its method," but " should pursue a practical object. That is it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...view of the present, and his forecast of the future " (p. 1). And again : " ... it is with the rise and development of states that history deals " (p....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 166

American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...history, while it should be sciż entific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral.” This, It must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 47

Great Britain - 1885 - 932 pages
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object—that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral." This, it must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely...
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Obiter Dicta ...: Milton. Pope. Johnson. Burke. The muse of history. Charles ...

Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral.' This, it must be admitted, is a large order. The task of the historian, as here explained, is not merely...
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Democracy

James Platt - Democracy - 1888 - 224 pages
...that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object—that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity...end with something that might be called a moral." (Profkssor Seeley.) History is a science and should be read and studied to help us in our conduct to-day,...
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The Educational Journal of Virginia, Volumes 19-20

Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1888 - 1260 pages
...reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his views of the present and his forecast of the future. The history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusions ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit the general tendency of English...
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