 | Tower Genealogical Society - 1909 - 428 Seiten
...that is grand, sublime, of benefit to the nice, has come out of faith. . . . One lesson and one only history may be said to repeat with distinctness, that the world is somehow built on moral foundations." We understand the Puritans when we understand their faith. We... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 810 Seiten
...Letter to Motley, Dec. 28; The Correspondence of John iMthrop Motley, ed. Curtis, vol. II, p. 196. One lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat...The theories of M: Comte and his disciples advance us, after all, not a step beyond the trodden and familiar ground. If men are not entirely animals,... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1915 - 454 Seiten
...on the tablets of eternity is the moral law. Again, in the same essay, the same writer declares: " One lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat...good; in the long run it is ill with the wicked." Instead of saying that history teaches that the world is built on moral foundations, it would be as... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - 1921 - 392 Seiten
...love streams from them even now more than 2,500 years after they were first uttered. BENJAMIN JOWETT. ONE lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat...old doctrine taught long ago by the Hebrew prophets. JA FROUDE, 1889. 1 Cf. pp. 07 and 08. THE BOOK OF JONAH. A1! involuntary smile passes over one's features... | |
 | George Evans Roberts - 1921 - 58 Seiten
...the "universe is moral." James Anthony Froude, the historian, in his essay upon history, declares: "One lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat with distinctness: that the world is somehow built upon moral foundations; that in the long run it is well with the good; in the long run... | |
 | Joseph Herman Hertz - 1922 - 392 Seiten
...love streams from them even now more than 2,500 years after they were first uttered. BENJAMIN JOWETT. ONE lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat...old doctrine taught long ago by the Hebrew prophets. JA FROUDE, 1889. ' Cf. pp. 67 and 68. THE BOOK OF JONAH Atf involuntary smile passes over one's features... | |
 | John Hubert Greusel - 1923 - 344 Seiten
...other than the mere teachings of history." He means, let us say, "faith." Proude has a similar idea. "One lesson and only one, history may be said to repeat...run. it is well with the good; in the long run, it is evil with the wicked." E. Benjamin Andrews (Cornell) holds that great men, playing an historical role,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1927 - 386 Seiten
...Froude, "is a voice for ever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong." And again : " One lesson and only one, history may be said to repeat with distinctness . . . that in the long run it is well with the good ; in the long run it is ill with the wicked." In other places... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1866 - 742 Seiten
...you call the spirit of part BJT« is but the spirit of this or that good gentleman in whose inirxl tb *ages are reflected." One lesson, and only one, history...that the world is built somehow on moral foundations : tbit in the long run, it is well with the good ; in the long run, it is ill »na the wicked. But... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 Seiten
...portraying villains and heroes, high moments of destiny and acts of retribution and divine justice. "One lesson, and only one, history may be said to...good; in the long run, it is ill with the wicked." Froude had a robust if not a profound mind; his Short Studies in Great Subjects (four volumes, 1867-83)... | |
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One lesson, and only one, history may be said to repeat with distinctness: that the world is built somehow on moral foundations; that, in the long run, it is well with the good; in the long run, it is ill with the wicked. 
