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Of similar vignettes this book is full , and for that and other reasons it will be indispensable to the historian , who , in days to come , essays to write the history of this important epoch .
Of similar vignettes this book is full , and for that and other reasons it will be indispensable to the historian , who , in days to come , essays to write the history of this important epoch .
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The historian's criterion of relevance is , in a certain sense , the line drawn between such points of coincidence : the principle of abridgment is the adequate description of the mediations whereby each coincidence merged into the next ...
The historian's criterion of relevance is , in a certain sense , the line drawn between such points of coincidence : the principle of abridgment is the adequate description of the mediations whereby each coincidence merged into the next ...
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His Grace concludes that there is to be found in history an element properly described as immanent pur- pose , and to exhibit this is one essential function of the historian . ' But surely , whereas the element of free - will in the ...
His Grace concludes that there is to be found in history an element properly described as immanent pur- pose , and to exhibit this is one essential function of the historian . ' But surely , whereas the element of free - will in the ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 266 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1936 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 14 Sep 2021 |
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