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I Have Read Somewhere Or Other,--in Dionysius Of Halicarnassus, I Think,--that History Is Philosophy Teaching By Examples.
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I have read somewhere or other,--in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think,--that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
-- Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751)
-- On the Study and Use of History, Letter 2
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It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day.
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