For your Instruction herein, you are to know that an Historian in Conversation is only a Person of so pregnant a Fancy, that he cannot be contented with ordinary Occurrences.

The notable historian of this period is Bartolome Las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa.

The historians of America are a goodly company, scarcely less worthy than the champions whose deeds they have chronicled.

Mr. Irving insisted that the great historian of the Manhattoes was not the vulgar old fellow they would keep putting on the omnibuses and ice-carts; but that, though quaint and old-fashioned, he was still of gentle blood.

Unless history is as great a liar as Talleyrand said it was, when he declared that it was founded on a general conspiracy against truth,and who could suppose an English historian capable of lying?shameful exhibitions of fear, flights of whole bodies of troops, and displays of panic terror were very common things with our English ancestors who fought and flourished tempore Caroli Primi.

A new stock-law, requiring the peasantry to shut up their unicorns during certain seasons of the year and keep them out of the crops, also protecting them from sportsmen while shedding their horns in spring, or moulting, it is said, was passed, but the English historians are such great jokers that the writer has had much difficulty in culling the facts and eliminating the persiflage from these writings.

The greatest historian of his day, William of Newburgh, was monk in a quiet little Yorkshire monastery.

The judgments passed on him vary greatly: the official Chinese historiography rejects him entirelynaturally, for he tried to exterminate Confucianism, while every later historian was himself a Confucian.

It has been said that the historian is an inverted prophet.

The two great modern German historians are Treitschke and Sybel, for whom see Gooch's History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century, pp.

If the historians were simply the amanuenses of the Infinite Spirit, then of course they could not have erred in anything they recorded.

That the republican historian was no timid or time-serving flatterer of prince or public is more than clear, while his unerring judgment of the future should bring much of respect for his judgment of the past.

This historian was the first Mussulman to write a general history of the world.

HÉNAULT, French historian, born in Paris, president of the Parlement of Paris; was author of "Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de France" (1685-1770).

Modern historians of Roman literature are merely critics, like Dalhmann, Schlegel, Niebuhr, Muller, Mommsen, Mure, Arnold, Dunlap, and Thompson.

Even an historian who would live must be an artist, like Voltaire or Macaulay.

The 'eloquent historian' was Gibbon.

In this complicated game of craft, policy, and passion, our historian is the first writer who has arrived at the knowledge of the cards which each player held in his hand at the time the game was played.

The first great historian was Sallust, the contemporary of Cicero, born 86 B.C., the year that Marius died.

If possible, let the historian be an eye-witness of everything he means to record; or, if that cannot be, rely on those only who are incorrupt, and who have no bias from passion or prejudice, to add or to diminish anything.

His historian and secretary, Fitz-Stephens [u], mentions, among other particulars, that his apartments were every day in winter covered with clean straw or hay, and in summer with green rushes or boughs; lest the gentlemen who paid court to him, and who could not, by reason of their great number, find a place at table, should soil their fine clothes by sitting on a dirty floor [w].

The historians were the born scribes, attorneys, and lawyers of the Government, charged with the care of its charters, its title-deeds, and cases, and armed to the teeth for its future quarrels....