I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples. (Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke)

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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