The history of the English people would have been a great and a noble history whatever king had ruled over the land seven hundred years ago.

In the wide world's history was it not a crowning, and one of the most useful qualities of many of the greatest men?" "Great men have had imagination.

The well-known history of the rise of the Zulus and the destruction of their neighbours is a case in point.

History is a boundless field of inquiry; no man can master it in all its departments and periods.

Is the contemplation of their own history and respect for their own traditions the lenitive he prescribes for a people whose only history is a revolution, whose only tradition is rebellion?

Two women who have helped to make the music history of Norway are Agatha Backer-Gröndahl and Catharinus Elling.

The history is not only magister vitae, but also it is the master of conscience.

The history of the world is a proof of a slow growth and perfection.

Ehnamani, pastor of the Santee churcha fine old man, whose history in connection with the Minnesota massacre of '62, and whose conversion and present work are well knownwas once asked, "Do you ever have the least regret that the old life is gonedo you ever have any longing for the war and for the dance?"

The official dynastic histories apply to the course of Chinese history the criterion of Confucian ethics; for them history is a textbook of ethics, designed to show by means of examples how the man of high character should behave or not behave.

[Footnote 2: The 'History of Susanna' had been an established puppet play for more than two generations.

The "History" is a curious medley of pagan and Christian legends, of chronicle, comment, and pure invention,all recorded in minute detail and with a gravity which makes it clear that Geoffrey had no conscience, or else was a great joker.

"As for my ancestors I have no recollection of them, the history of the Randolphs in Virginia is my background.

The fame of Egypt was never quite forgotten, nor all its history, for Egypt was the world's granary, and closely accessible to the ships of Corinth and Rome; and Egypt never lost her civilization in all her long succession of enslavement.

Jewish history is a "tissue of sheer follies, shameful deeds, deceptions, and cruelties, the chief motives of which were self-interest and lust for power."

The history of religions is an education of the human race through divine revelation; so teaches his small but thoughtful treatise of 1780.

Dyer's History of the City of Rome is the fullest description of its wonders that I have read.

History is progress in the consciousness of freedom.

The history of England indeed is the literature of Englandbut one very different from any school history or other now in vogue.

But the history of Pasquin is not a mere story of Roman jests, nor is its interest such alone as may arise from an amusing, though neglected series of literary anecdotes.

Raleigh's history of the world, written during his imprisonment, while he was under sentence of death, was his favorite study.

History shall be the inspiration of our prophecy.

History is a chaos, only because mankind has been ever rebelling against me, its lawful ruler . . .

Its trade, which remained very considerable until the latter part of the fourteenth century, chiefly owing to its wool and cloth, was, however, slowly declining, and politically the history of the city becomes a mere series of incidents, among the more splendid of which were the marriage of Henry IV.

Their history, uses, and importance would be topic enough for a separate article.