Edward Augustus Freeman quotes
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“History is past politics, and politics is present history.”
-- Edward Augustus FreemanSource : 1886 Methods of Historical Study.
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“This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it.”
-- Edward Augustus FreemanSource : 1881 Of America. Letter to F H Dickinson from New Haven, 4 Dec.
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“To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.”
-- Edward Augustus FreemanSource : Edward Augustus Freeman (1886). “The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor”
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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