 ... for I have lived long enough to remark that if we judge of past events by present motives, and do not try to enter into the spirit of the age when they took place, and to see them with the eyes with which they were really seen, we shall conceit many...  The Provost - 第 169 頁John Galt 著 - 1822 - 355 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
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...the passing of Old Corruption, Pawkie addresses the problem of horizons of historical understanding: I have endeavoured, in a manner, to be governed by...witnessed them, nor even by those who, perhaps, suffered them; while, therefore, I think it has been of a great advantage to the public to have survived that... | |
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