 | Thucydides - 1874 - 738 pages
...different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from deficient memory, sometimes from deficient impartiality. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear,...course of human things must resemble if it does not 14 reflect it, I shall be content. In fine I have written my work to be a possession for all time,... | |
 | Harold Stearns - 1922 - 612 pages
...cool head. We mean Thucydides. In his foreword to the History of the Peloponnesian War he wrote: " The absence of romance in my history will, I fear,...detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the... | |
 | Guy Theodore Wrench - 1926 - 486 pages
...realism. " The absence of romance," he wrote (Book I., chapter i., Richard Crawley's translation), " in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from...interpretation of the future, which in the course of nature must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content." Such a statement presages a sober... | |
 | 1917 - 730 pages
...history is summed up in the remarkable passage in an early chapter of his work in which he speaks of ' those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the...things must resemble, if it does not reflect, it.' He makes it clear that the essential cause of the resemblance lies in human nature itself, and is thus... | |
 | 1926 - 964 pages
...are unconscious of their perennial domination. We are not yet of those for whom Thucydides wrote, ' inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past...things must resemble, if it does not reflect, it.' HW HOUSEHOLD. _ 1926 CORRESPONDENCE •THE MYTHS OF WAR' To the Editor of THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND... | |
 | John E. Jessup, Robert W. Coakley - 1979 - 586 pages
...history as a form of didactic literature, and he wrote his History of the Peloponnesian War for those "who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future."10 While Herodotus was particularly interested in causes, Thucydides was especially concerned... | |
 | Thomas Andrew Bailey - 1982 - 244 pages
...short , he was writing for posterity rather than his contemporaries. Later generations, he felt, needed "an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future ..." But he who writes for posterity is more likely to be cherished by posterity than by his contemporaries.... | |
 | Francis Anthony Boyle - 1985 - 388 pages
...started, developed, and ended. Hence, it becomes necessary to follow Thucydides' suggestion and employ "an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation...human things must resemble if it does not reflect it."297 For this purpose, the following theoretical propositions concerning the five functions played... | |
 | Frank W. Walbank - 1985 - 396 pages
...make thorough enquiry in each case into the past.' ' If my history be judged useful by those enquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future', wrote Thucydides (1.22.4), '. . .I shall be content.' To draw such lessons implies the || passing of... | |
 | Theodore S. Hamerow - 1987 - 292 pages
...parallelism in human affairs which historical study could discover and use for the purpose of prediction. "The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest," he declared in the opening chapter. "But if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact... | |
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The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the 10 interpretation of the future, which in the course of human... 
