| Ben Lawton, Janet Staiger - 1977 - Страниц: 92
...appeals to him. (1961, pp. 6-7)2 The problem with this view, to return to Carr's metaphor, is that The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's...ocean; and what the historian catches will depend pariiy on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish and what tackle he chooses... | |
| Michael Moïssey Postan, Peter Mathias - 1978 - Страниц: 664
...ignored than the evidence presented in this chapter. An eminent British historian has written that ' the facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance,... | |
| Shirley Morahan - 1981 - Страниц: 334
...for the buzzing. If you can detect none, either you are tone deaf or your historian is a dull dog. The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slub. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian... | |
| Paul A. Cohen - 1984 - Страниц: 268
...basis of what they happen to be looking for in the events of the past. The "facts," EH Carr reminds us, "are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; . . . what the historian catches will depend . . . mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish... | |
| Samuel M. Natale, Brian M. Rothschild, Joseph W. Sora - 1995 - Страниц: 284
...we limit ourselves to what we value, to the value-scheme we adopt. As Carr says of historical facts: ...they are like fish swimming about in a vast and...will depend. partly on chance, but mainly on what pan of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being,... | |
| Samuel M. Natale, Brian M. Rothschild, Joseph W. Sora, Tara M. Madden - 1995 - Страниц: 280
...to the value-scheme we adopt. As Carr says of historical facts: ...they are like fish swimming ahout in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what...will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what pan of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being,... | |
| Kozo Yamamura - 1997 - Страниц: 396
...ignored than the evidence presented in this chapter. An eminent British historian has written that 'the facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming in 58 Abegglen and Mannari, 'Leaders of Modern Japan', 120. a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean;... | |
| Sarah Street - 2000 - Страниц: 210
...how the film audience has been documented thtoughout the twentieth centuty. Catt desctibes facts as 'fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the histotian catches will depend, pattly on chance, but mainly on what patt of the ocean he chooses to... | |
| Colin Elman, Miriam Fendius Elman - 2001 - Страниц: 452
...emphasized that data are "made" rather than simply collected. The historian EH Carr argues that facts are like "fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the fisherman catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to... | |
| Paul A. Cohen - 2003 - Страниц: 242
...basis of what they happen to be looking for in the events of the past. The "facts," EH Carr reminds us, are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean;. ..what the historian catches will depend. ..mainly on what parr of the ocean he chooses to fish in... | |
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