 To make Gibbons or Macaulays may be impossible : but it cannot be beyond the power of able teachers to set in the right path many of those who, say what we will, are going to write history well or are going to write it ill. Unquestionably of late years...  Essays on the Teaching of History - Page xixby Frederic William Maitland - 1901 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
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...that mankind should believe what is true, and disbelieve what is false. The Teaching of History 417 To make Gibbons or Macaulays may be impossible : but...any journal to promote their common object." Even of late Dr Gross has been sending us our bibliographies from the other side of the Atlantic. More co-operation,... | |
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...Cambridge historians were preoccupied with the Cambridge modern history, was to quote Mandell Creighton: 'English historians had not yet ... associated themselves...founded any journal to promote their common object.'' Meanwhile, during the 1 S9os the Press itselt paid increasing attention to monographs and periodicals... | |
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...nation. It is of some moment that mankind should believe what is true, and disbelieve what is false. 27 ' To make Gibbons or Macaulays may be impossible : but...any journal to promote their common object.' Even of late Dr Gross has been sending us our bibliographies from the other side of the Atlantic. More co-operation,... | |
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