 | 1842 - 300 páginas
...Napoleon was not a greater man than Hannibal, nor was his enterprise conducted with greater ability. Two things we ought to learn from history : one, that...inferior to them, if we do not advance beyond them. i Knowledge is power, according to the well-known maxim of Lord Bacon ; but it must remain with those... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1849 - 336 páginas
...Napoleon was not a greater man than Hannibal, nor was his enterprise conducted with greater ability. Two things we ought to learn from history; one, that...show in what way the Professorship which I have the honour to hold, may be made productive of some benefit to the University. It is certainly no affected... | |
 | 1855 - 864 páginas
...under the hands of us who have succeeded them. Finely and truly has it been said — " Two things one ought to learn from History ; one " that we are not...inferior to them, if we do not " advance beyond them."* Although the English remain masters in India to the exclusion of all other European powers that previously... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...Napoleon was not a greater roan than Hannibal, nor was his enterprise conducted with greater ability. Two things we ought to learn from history ; one, that...inferior to them, if we do not advance beyond them." — Arnold' i .Lecture3. I KNOW not that the men of old Were better than men now, Of hearts more kind,... | |
 | 1865 - 496 páginas
...teach us these two things — first, that we are not in ourselves superior to our fathers ; and second, that we are shamefully and monstrously inferior to them if we do not advance beyond them, every day showing among us as individuals — " Something attempted, something done, To earn our night's... | |
 | 1865 - 980 páginas
...two things — firet, that we are not in ourselves superior to our fathers ; and second, that we aro shamefully and monstrously inferior to them if we do not advance beyond them, every day showing among us as individuals — " Something attempted, something done, • To earn oar... | |
 | 1887 - 526 páginas
...history," says Dr. Arnold, in his lectures on Modern History, published in 1841, "one, that we are not ourselves superior to our fathers ; another, that...inferior to them if we do not advance beyond them." And this, if it is not borne out by an extended view of human nature, or by the light of recent discovery,... | |
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Two things we ought to learn from history; one, that we are not in ourselves superior to our fathers ; another, that we are shamefully and monstrously inferior to them, if we do not advance beyond them. 