Quotes About History

And so Wilfrid set out once more for Rome. It was the third time he had made the 1,500-mile journey,

and he was now almost seventy years old.

were now subject to the authority of a single secular ruler: the king of Mercia.

by 627 Eadwine was ready to take the plunge. At Easter that year

he was actually in his mid-twenties at the time of his accession.

According to Bede, on one occasion Paulinus spent more than a month at Yeavering,

he had been married three times, and had fathered at least thirteen children,

Edward reigned for a quarter of a century, very little is known about him as a person.

Scandinavians knew all about the rich coastal communities of the kingdoms to the south,

But by the time of Edward's succession in 899, Ecgwynn had either died or been discarded,

All we learn is that the fighting lasted a long time,

was massive – something like 50,000 men, over ten per cent of the entire imperial army.

He destroyed the pagans with great slaughter,' says Asser,

north of the River Rhine and the River Danube, and west of the River Vistula.

Similar structures were built elsewhere at places like Portchester, Pevensey and Caister-on-Sea,

OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand

Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale. —Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857

Sometimes scientific progress forces us to reevaluate the wisdom of the past. Other times, it reinforces it. The

I felt myself still reliving a past which was no longer anything more than the history of another person;

All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by Gérard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a 'personal share' in the Water Company.

There was a time when my ancestors were proud of the title of chamberlain or butler to the King," said the Baron. "There was also a time," replied Morel haughtily, "when my ancestors cut off your ancestors' heads.

myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles V

a book is a great cemetery in which, for the most part, the names upon the tombs are effaced.

the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.