Blood Quote by Edmund Morgan Download Open image “A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.” — Edmund Morgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blood Cold Didactic Historian History Running Should
I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“A historian ought to be exact, sincere and impartial; free from passion, unbiased by interest, fear, resentment or affection; and faithful to the truth,… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
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To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Historians have become far too precious. Their work has become ever more specialised and, as they steadily lose the context of their studies, they… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful. — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
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Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
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I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image