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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Quotes:

Ocupation: Politician

Life: September 16, 1678 - December 12, 1751

Birthday: September 16

Death: December 12

I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

source: "Letters on the study and use of history" by Henry St. John Bolingbroke, (letter 2), 1752.

topic: Philosophy, Teaching, Thinking, Geography And History, Chronology

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