English Literature, Considered As An Interpreter of English History. Designed As a Manual of Instruction
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Chronicle is very pleasing to read, and the reader may be, to some extent, his own philosopher ; but the importance of history as a study is found in its philosophy. As far down as the eighteenth century, almost everything in hi.story partakes of the nature of chronicle. In that century, in obedience to the law of human progress, there sprang up in England and on the Continent the men who first made chronicle material for philosophy, and used philosophy to teach by example what to imitate and w...hat to shun. What were the circumstances which led, in the eighteenth century, to the simultaneous appearance of Hume, Gibbon, and Robertson, as the originators of a new school of history ? 309 3IO ENGLISH LITERATURE. Some of them have been already mentioned in treating of the antiquarian age. We have endeavored to show how the English literati — novelists, essayists, and poets — have been in part unconscious historians. It will also appear that the professed historians themselves have been, in a great measure, the creatures of English history.
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