 Cardinal de Retz — the Life of Richelieu— everything about Napoleon : read works of that kind. Strelamb shall prepare you a list. Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.  London Society - Seite 432herausgegeben von - 1871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Don Carlos Seitz - 1917 - 364 Seiten
...Beaconsfield. By William Flavelle Moneypenny. Volume I, 1804-1837. With Portraits and Illustrations. Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Contarini Fleming. 8vo, ix-401 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1910. All rights reserved. Paul... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1919 - 490 Seiten
...then for your separate masters. Rise early and regularly and read for three hours. Bead the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz, the Life of Richelieu, everything...for that is life without theory. Then fence. Talk an hour with your French master, but do not throw the burden of the conversation upon him. Give him... | |
 | Toru Dutt, Harihar Das - 1921 - 412 Seiten
...Ballads of Hindustan) ; and Messrs. T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. (Mr. RW Frazer's Literary History of India). ' Read no history : nothing but biography, for that is life without theory,' said Disraeli, and I venture to commend this Memoir to my readers, in the hope that they may find in... | |
 | 1925 - 680 Seiten
...fakirs"? CHAPTER XXIII BIOGRAPHY "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one." — CARLYLE. "Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." — GEORGE MEREDITH in "Contarini Fleming." THE field of English biography was uncharted and unmapped,... | |
 | Gilbert Stone - 1922 - 424 Seiten
...so, then all sense is dead and those are right who say man rises only to fall. CHAPTER I THE UNFREE READ no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." With those words Contarini Fleming dismisses as worthless any attempt to depict the history of the... | |
 | Gilbert Stone - 1922 - 436 Seiten
...so, then all sense is dead and those are right who say man rises only to fall. CHAPTER I ' THE UNFREE READ no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." With those words Contarini Fleming dismisses as worthless any attempt to depict the history of the... | |
 | 1923 - 876 Seiten
...interest will not be confined to those who take to heart Disraeli's dictum in Ccntarini Fleming, " Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory ". There is little theory in these sketches. They begin with Walpole and end with Lloyd George, and... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - 1925 - 240 Seiten
...mouths of his characters, made the father of Contarini Fleming advise his son : ' Read the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, the Life of Richelieu, everything about Napoleon ; read works of that kind. Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.' 2 But biography is not a... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - 1925 - 236 Seiten
...mouths of his characters, made the father of Contarini Fleming advise his son : ' Read the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, the Life of Richelieu, everything about Napoleon ; read works of that kind. Read no history, nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.' 2 But biography is not a... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...well-written Life is almost as rare as a wellspent one. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author Read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English prime minister Biography is to give a man some kind of shape... | |
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