...aid down in Lord Aberdeen’s late Act of Parliament. This statement should, historically speaking, have found itself under our third head, as being one... ...nce,—or, if that were impossible, to perplex and con- found,—any relics of historical records which might happen to survive from his youthful studies.... ...blank knowledge of facts, which is all that most readers gather from their historical studies, is a mere deposition of rubbish without cohesion, and r... ...cline and Fall of Gibbon. And to this class may in part 1 be referred the Historical Sketches of Voltaire. Histories of this class pro- ceed upon pri... ...inct purposes; and all must contribute to make up a comprehensive total of historical knowledge. The first fur- 81 Thomas de Quincey nishes the facts... ... of his own country; where all men had gone astray, he went astray. And in geography, as regarded the Italian movements of Hannibal, he erred with his...

... be translated into a wider meaning; in which it becomes true also for our historical experience. Cæsar and Rome have flour- * Concerning this questio... ...h embraced the whole oichomeni;—the total habitable world as then known to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the Briti... ...rs, operative even where it is not perceived, but like the distinctions of geography—existing to-day, forgotten to-morrow—and abolished by a stroke of... ...after all the constituents of Roman grandeur had passed away, should their historical trophies survive, recall- ing to them the scenes of departed her... ...ven in that sense, therefore, and as a great depository of heart- stirring historical remembrances, Rome was profitably de- stroyed; and in any other ... ...hrone-shattering power must and will engage the foremost place amongst all historical reviews. The 117 Thomas de Quincey “dislimning” and unmoulding ...

... his wife gave music lessons and he himself a course of history and one of geography in the evenings. He was about forty- five years of age, sergeant-... ...ed them, were sold at 71 Balzac the University library under the name of “Historical and Geographic Catechisms.” Feeling himself in duty bound to off... ... figure above the common height. Neat and clean as a master of history and geography in a young ladies’ school ought to be, he wore fine linen, a plea... ...l not be appointed head of the division.” Bixiou. “Papa Phellion, you know geography?” Phellion [bridling up]. “I should say so!” Bixiou. “And history... ... that, but you don’t know the human heart; you have gone no further in the geography and history of that organ than you have in the environs of the ci...

... are fifteen in number: I. Etymology; II. Grammar; III. Mathematics; IV . Geography; V . “Original”; VI. Analysis; VII. History; VIII. “Intellectual”... ...er of the feet. The product is the result. Right you are. In the matter of geography this little book is unspeakably rich. The questions do not appear... ...n our public schools are not merely loaded up with those showy facts about geography, mathematics, and so on, and left in that incomplete state; no, t... ...lysis; for, after all, it is the thing to spread your mind. We come now to historical matters, historical remains, one might say. As one turns the pag... ...ill in some distant future be found which deal with “Claimants”— claimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the Ve... ...resume it—on no evidence of any kind. Which is their way, when they want a historical fact. Fact and presump Mark T wain 235 tion are, for business ...

...ous lure. All the old apart- ments have been rechristened, as it were; the geography of the castle has been reestablished. The guardrooms, the bedroom... ...much to certain portions of the interior, and to occasional ef- fusions of historical information, that the old lady with the prove sometimes lost pat... ...self, with the cathedral, the castle, and the Maison d’Adam, as one of the historical monuments of Angers. 77 Henry James XV. IF I SPENT two nights a... ...ain to show you the lustreless gem of the museum,—these things have a mild historical qual- ity, and the sallow canvases after all illustrate somethin... ...mentioned have not that vagueness of identity which is the misfor- tune of historical characters; they are real, supremely real, thanks to their affil... ...ors of the gigantic pile. It had already seemed to me the dreariest of all historical buildings, and my final visit confirmed the impression. The plac...

... loves about the circle of which Dmitri Rudin and himself were members, is historically one of the most suggestive. It refers to a circle of young stu... ... Rudin Hence the perpetuation of Rudin’s type, which acquires more than an historical interest. In discussing the character of Hlestakov, the hero of ... ...school-girl now. Mlle, Boncourt had not given her lessons in mythology and geography for a long while; but Natalya had every morning to read historica... ...logy and geography for a long while; but Natalya had every morning to read historical books, travels, or other instructive works with her. Darya Mihai... ...ally se- verely and sourly through her spectacles when Natalya was reading historical books; according to the old French lady’s ideas all history was ...

....’ I have lived also to be somewhat ashamed of the exuberant outpouring of historical allusions, which, how- ever, were perfectly natural among the se... ...nealogical and chronologi- cal charts of Kings and Kaisars, comparisons of historical characters, tables of Christian names and their derivations, bot... ...zabeth; ‘why, they used to be the only history I knew, and almost the only geography. Do not you remember Aunt Anne’s laughing at me for arguing that ... ...rammar and arithmetic, and all the latitude and longitude puzzling part of geography than I do—a great deal more.’ ‘I am sorry to find there is some o...

...is tedious.” “Why do you pursue it? Why do you not rather teach his- tory, geography, grammar, even arithmetic?” “Is monsieur certain that I am myself... ...gue’s end.” “Monsieur, I have had many lessons both in grammar, his- tory, geography, and arithmetic. I have gone through a course of each study.” “Br... ...s. It seems she happened to be in want of a French lady to give lessons in geography, history, grammar, and composition, in the French language. Mrs. ... ...position quite incapacitate you from understanding these points; and as to historical and poetical associations, I will not insult you, mademoiselle, ... ...y frequently were; often, when elucidating favourite points of history, or geography, she would wax genuinely eloquent in her earnest- ness. Her pupil...

...lework, she will be found to have realized her friends’ fondest wishes. In geography there is still much to be desired; and a careful and undeviating ... ...ion; she had, besides, 23 Thackeray read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was dressing for dinner, and aft... ...id George Osborne, “you who are so clever an artist, you must make a grand historical picture of the scene of the boots. Sedley shall be represented i... ...ts of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, without the aid of... ...nd to rout Mr. Washington on Long Island, would prove itself worthy of its historical reputation on the oft-trodden battle-grounds of the Low Countrie...

...ve then and can remember, it has become now almost as re- mote, almost as “historical,” as the days before the French Revolution. Our days, our method... ...men which enables us to pit a woman at—the censorship will object to exact geography upon this point—against a man at Essen which has tipped the balan... ...ting to note how partial and divided these affinities must necessarily be. Historically and politically, the citizen of the United States must be draw... ...is Their Argument.” Their minds have been systematically corrupted by base historical teaching, and the inculcation of a rancid patriotism. They are a...

...ions. The creation, for instance, does not belong to the earthly or merely historical records, but to the spiritual records of the Bible; to the same ... ...tle versed in biblical language as not to know, that (except in the merely historical parts of the Jewish records) every section of time has a secret ... ...and the 4th, one; so that, in all, this active navigator, who has enriched geography, I hope, with something of a higher qual- ity than your old muffs... ...arious records, 126 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater that the true historical genesis of the name, was precisely through that composition of w... ...nderstanding which can thus find a brotherly resemblance between two great historical events, which of all that ever were put on record stand off from... ... clergy, have a generous origin: but it is right to point the attention of historical students to their strength and the effect which they have had. T...

...ed on the picture of my mother, which stood over the mantel piece. It was an historical subject, painted at my father’s desire, and represented Carol... ...who had given me life? Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative sit... ...enstein 131 had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to...

...ok. Let us drop the Mississippi’s physical history, and say a word about its historical history—so to speak. We can glance briefly at its slumbrous fi... ...itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical dates and facts around it, he adds perspective and color, and ... ...e hand was sometimes out of doors,—here, never. This is an important fact in geography.” If the loafers determined the character of a country, it woul... ...shing off the alligator business, he dropped easily and comfortably into the historical vein, and told of some tremendous feats of half a dozen old ti... ...le, on account of the portraits, which are authentic. But, like many another historical picture, it means nothing without its label. And one label wil... ... worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and ex pression in a historical picture. In Rome, people with fine sympathetic natures stand u... ... me one or 2 hours every nite, & he gave me a Arithmetic, a spelling book, a Geography & a writing book, & he hers me ev- ery nite he lets me come int...

... schoolroom, where an irregular verb, some 40 The Two Sides of the Shield geography, and some dates awaited her. Then followed another rush of the po... ...rcles, and everything as it was before the Congress of Vienna?’ ‘You liked geography; I hated it.’ ‘Y es, I was young enough to come in for the elder ... ... book all the afternoon. It is very bad for you. We are going to have some historical tableaux. They are to have one set, and I thought perhaps you an... ...o any one else. So the day after the New Zealand letters came, just as the historical reading and needlework were in full force, the schoolroom door w...

...ng very hard. We were on the edge of the lake, and, as we had lately begun geography, the lake was the Sea of Azof. Suddenly, in these circumstances, ... ...eble range, and perpetrated, in higher spirits than ever, geographical and historical jokes. It was con- spicuous of course in Miles in particular tha...

...le Duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in the above-named year is historical. All Brussels had been in a state of excitement about it, and I ... ...ad sat up of nights conning lessons and spelling over crabbed grammars and geography books in order to teach them to Georgy. She had worked even at th... ...on of some little girls, whom she would instruct in English, in French, in Geography, in History, and in Music—address A. O., at Mr. Brown’s”; and she...

...ictionary I can quite get on by myself, reading an easy part of the Bible (historical books, e.g.} at the rate of about twenty-five verses an hour. We... ...ant to be reading history as well, and that involves a good deal; physical geography , geology, &c., yet one things helps another very much. I don’t w... ...rville, I think, somewhere describes the na- ture of them in her “Physical Geography.” The wind veered and hauled about a point or two, but blew from ... ...ting as you have, I dare say, in spite of music and French and history and geography and all the rest of it. But I do dearly love to write to you when... ...s in the sermon he preached on behalf of the Melanesian Mission (a kind of historical review of the growth and spread of the Gospel), although coming ... ...e of things which is of course peculiar to England, the produce of certain historical events, and which can have no resem- blance whatever to the circ... ...p so well as a great many—they in- sist a good deal on technical points of historical knowledge, &c.—but in all things really essential—in his clear p... ...pel we followed the holy services and acts of each day, taking Ellicott’s “Historical Lectures” as a guide. ‘Each evening I had my short sermonet, and...

...Such names at present cut a convict figure, The very Botany Bay in moral geography; Their loyal treason, renegado rigour, Are good manure fo... ...o that I do not grossly err in facts, Statistics, tactics, politics, and geography)— Having been used to serve on horses’ backs, And no grea... ... negroes, Nile or Niger, To that impracticable place, Timbuctoo, Where Geography finds no one to oblige her With such a chart as may be safely... ...ow with authority, Turpin’s or Monmouth Geoffry’s Chronicle; Men whose historical superiority Is always greatest at a miracle. But Saint A...

...lework, she will be found to have realized her friends’ fondest wishes. In geography there is still much to be desired; and a careful and undeviating ... ...ion; she had, besides, 23 Thackeray read the Arabian Nights and Guthrie’s Geography; and it is a fact that while she was dressing for dinner, and aft... ...id George Osborne, “you who are so clever an artist, you must make a grand historical picture of the scene of the boots. Sedley shall be represented i... ...ts of Hebrew; in mathematics and history; in Spanish, French, Italian, and geography; in music, vocal and instrumental; in dancing, without the aid of... ...nd to rout Mr. Washington on Long Island, would prove itself worthy of its historical reputation on the oft-trodden battle-grounds of the Low Countrie... ... at Brussels on the 15th of June in 289 Thackeray the above-named year is historical. All Brussels had been in a state of excitement about it, and I ... ...ad sat up of nights conning lessons and spelling over crabbed grammars and geography books in order to teach them to Georgy. She had worked even at th... ...on of some little girls, whom she would instruct in English, in French, in Geography, in History, and in Music—address A. O., at Mr. Brown’s”; and she...

...ch of scepticism: and, in consequence, the story was soon after adopted as historically established, and was reported at length by journals of the hig... ...ew, of that most industrious benefactor to the early stages of our English historical literature, Thomas Hearne. Three hundred guineas, I believe, had... ...nected with his office. He no more undertook to teach morals than to teach geography or cookery. He taught noth- ing. What he undertook was, simply to... ..., etc., and advantageously known as one of those who applied his legal and historical knowledge to the bending back into constitutional moulds of thos... ... logical classification of the various items in the survey, I will give it historically, or according to the order in which the most important facts o... ...familiarly associate with those who had none at all; not so much as a mere historical knowledge of the literature in its capital names and their chron...