"I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of……" — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
"I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples."
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9 Quotes by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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- History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
- The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
- It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine…
- Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is…
- As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular…
- I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the…
- To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not,…
- Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
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