Augustus William Hare Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

  Augustus William Hare

  Fashion, History, Meat

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.270

• The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Character, Blood, History

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

• When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Rocks, History, Littles

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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