 | Thucydides - 1914 - 640 páginas
...the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...the moment, but as a possession for all time. The Median war, the greatest achievement of past times, yet found a speedy decision in two actions by sea... | |
 | Thucydides - 1914 - 654 páginas
...the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. A i • iri • rrr history : The Median war, the greatest achievement of past times, yet found a speedy... | |
 | Horace West Household - 1927 - 232 páginas
...the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time" — [i. 22 (Crawley, in Dent's Temple Classics)]. It is plain — a studied correction of two mistakes... | |
 | John F. Naylor - 1984 - 440 páginas
...military historians, Thucydides, applied equally well, namely that these were essays written not ' to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.'65 In truth, little applause was heard from the public, surely in some measure because of the... | |
 | Theodore S. Hamerow - 1987 - 292 páginas
...reflect it, I shall be content." His intention was to instruct rather than please or entertain. "I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...of the moment, but as a possession for all time." Its enduring value would lie in its utility. Cicero was also convinced that historical study had practical... | |
 | Ben C. Fisher - 1989 - 184 páginas
...not reflect it." His high view of the usefulness of history is further reflected in his statement, "I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...of the moment, but as a possession for all time." 2 Hegel himself, paradoxically, put his thoughts in writing—presumably for the edification of posterity... | |
 | Ben C. Fisher - 1989 - 184 páginas
...not reflect it." His high view of the usefulness of history is further reflected in his statement, "I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time."2 Hegel himself, paradoxically, put his thoughts in writing — presumably for the edification... | |
 | Robert Gilpin - 1989 - 364 páginas
...future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it. ... In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time."1 Thucydides, assuming that the behavior and phenomena that he observed would repeat themselves... | |
 | Michael G. Fry - 1992 - 348 páginas
...the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to...applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time (1.22). In other words, he saw this greatest war as a paradigm that could be usefully studied in order... | |
 | Adda Brümmer Bozeman - 606 páginas
...world his History of the Peloponnesian War, he said that he had written his work, not as an essay that is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. "Sarton, pp. 194ff. 15 Chiang Molin, Tides from the West, New Haven, 1947, pp. 245f., as quoted in... | |
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... history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest ; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if... 
