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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON HISTORY AGAIN.1 1833.] The following singular Fragment on Hiitory forms part, as may be recognized, of the Inaugural Discourse delivered by our assiduous D. T. at the opening of the Society for the Difution of Common Honttly. The Discourse, if one may credit the Morning Papers, touched in the most wonderful manner, didactically, poetically, almost prophetically, on all things in this world and the next, in a strain of sustained or rather of suppressed passionate eloquence rarely wituessed in Parliament or out of it: the chief bursts were received with profound silence, ? interrupted, we fear, by snuff-taking. As will be seen, it is one of the didactic passages that we introduce here. The Editor of this Magazine is responsible for its accuracy, and publishes, if not with leave given, then with leave taken. ? O. T.] . . . History recommends itself as the most profitable of all studies: and truly, for such a being as Man, who is born, and has to learn and work, and then after a measured term of years to depart, leaving descendants and performances, and so, in all ways, to vindicate himself as vital portion of a Mankind, no study could be fitter. History is the Letter of Instructions, which the old generations write and posthumously transmit to the new; nay it may be called, more generally still, the Message, verbal or written, which all Mankind delivers to every man; it is the only articulate communication (when the inarticulate and mute, intelligible or not, lie round us and in us, so strangely through every fibre of our being, every step of our activity) which the Past can have with the Present, the Distant with what is Here. All Books, therefore, were they but Song-books or treatises on Mathematics, are in the long- run historical documents ? as indeed all Speec...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217821902 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217821901 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 In |
| List Price | $25.04 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 308 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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