 | Chester G. Starr - 1979 - 340 pages
...that his history is intended for "those who want to understand clearly the events which happened hi the past and which (human nature being what it is) will at some time or other and hi much the same ways, be repeated in the future." 8 Here for the first time hi historical literature... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 328 pages
...science of human affairs: "7t will be enough for me ... if these words of mine are fudged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which...other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future." (History, Book I, Chapter 1.) What can Thucydides mean by "understand" in such a sentence?... | |
 | David Bebbington - 1990 - 242 pages
...in the historical process. But he does make his purpose explicit. He tells us that he is writing for 'those who want to understand clearly the events which...other and in much the same ways be repeated in the future'. 2 This could possibly refer to a fully-developed cyclical view of history;' or it could merely... | |
 | Jack D. Douglas - 1989 - 520 pages
...of a romantic element It will be enough to me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which...other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was... | |
 | Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, Carroll William Westfall - 1991 - 438 pages
...learn from history since "the events which happened in the past" will, "human nature being what it is," "at some time or other and in much the same ways be repeated in the future."6 This and related assumptions led to an understanding of history that denied history's historicity... | |
 | Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki - 1992 - 282 pages
...writing thereafter. He says: It will be enough for me ... if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which...other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was... | |
 | Sean M. Lynn-Jones, Steven E. Miller - 1993 - 430 pages
...certainly they were implicit in Thucydides's hope that "these words of mine [will be] judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which...other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future."165 Modern interest in historical cycles has grown largely out of the field of economics, where... | |
 | Hugh W. Stephens - 1997 - 164 pages
...Peloponnesian Wars: "It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which...which (human nature being what it is) will, at some point or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future." 2 Acknowledgments As the author... | |
 | John Robert Morgan, Richard Stoneman - 1994 - 308 pages
...its unmythlike quality (to me muthodes); but it will be enough for me if my work is judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which...past and which (human nature being what it is) will be repeated in the future. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate... | |
 | Williamson Murray - 1996 - 702 pages
...understanding. Thucydides justified his purpose in writing The Peloponnesian War by declaring that past events - human nature being what it is - "will, at some time...other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future." 13 Providing contemporary strategists with a general understanding of how the strategic policymaking... | |
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And it may well be that my history will seem less easy to read because of the absence in it of a romantic element. It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened... 
