Essays on the Teaching of HistoryUniversity Press, 1901 - 104 pages |
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Page 65 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 60 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay, then, farewell ! I have touched the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting.
Page vii - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Page xiv - As to the wretched middle ages, they, it was well understood, had been turned over to " men of a low, unpolite genius fit only for the rough and barbarick part of learning." One of these mere antiquaries had lately written a History of the Exchequer which has worn better than most books of its time. Also he had written this sentence: "In truth, writing this history is in some sort a religious act.
Page 54 - Gods name leave off our attempts against the Terra firma. The natural Situation of Islands seems not to sort with Conquests in that Kind. England alone is a just Empire. Or when we would enlarge ourselves let it be that way we can, and to which it seems the eternal Providence hath destined us, which is by Sea.
Page xiii - ... its none too simple history was not so common in England as it might reasonably be expected to be in all parts of His Majesty's dominions. Also it is not impossible that a prince of that house which had Leibnitz for its historiographer may have thought that such historiographers as England could show hardly reached a creditable standard. So he founded professorships of modern history at Oxford and Cambridge (1724). Out of the stipends that were assigned to them the professors were to provide...
Page 26 - NED' is from the Natural Food Magazine, February, 1893.] THE CISIOJANUS. — Where and what is this? It occurs in Mr. RL Poole's essay in ' The Teaching of History ' (Camb., 1901) :— " The days of the months were reckoned either after the old Roman method by kalends, &c., or else in the modern way from the first onwards. But there are peculiar systems, that of Bologna and the Cisiojanus, which require to be mastered separately."— P. 26. CS WARD.
Page 41 - We must throw overboard the most mischievous and untrue statement that, according to the classical economists, 'it was only on the assumption of free competition that their principles and terminology could apply, or that, as they held, any economic science was possible'
Page 54 - ... the subject was deposited in three sacred volumes, which were approached by the devout disciple in much the same spirit as that in which the youthful Brahmin draws near to the Vedas. To read the first volume of Stubbs was necessary to salvation ; to read the second was greatly to be desired ; the third was reserved for the ambitious student who sought to accumulate merit by unnatural austerities — but between them they covered the whole ground. The lecturer lectured on Stubbs; the commentator...