Viscount Bolingbroke. 1678-1751

I have read somewhere or other,—in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,—that history is philosophy teaching by examples.[304:3]

On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.

The dignity of history.[304:4]

On the Study and Use of History. Letter v.

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.[304:5]

Letter to Mr. Pope.