Neither the historian nor the cartographer can ever reproduce the reality they are trying to communicate to the reader of books or
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I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the
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The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifyin
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian--ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a plac
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphl
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The poet, the dramatist, the novelist are free to exercise their imagination as widely as they choose. But the historian may not b
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Historian. A broad-gauge gossip.
Acts themselves alone are history.... Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, th
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