710 Quotes About Historical

...a good soldier should ride into Paradise bearing the soul of the woman he loved.

Back then, I say, you could have died easily as he,all those frail geniuses died of syphilis or TB.

But in her seventy and more years, she had learned that the risks taken for others gave the greatest rewards.

Chicago had Mrs. O'Leary's cow. Seattle had Jonathan Back's glue pot...The Great Seattle Fire destroyed thirty-one square blocks before the fire finally burned out.

What a creature is Man. Incomparable in reason, infinite in faculties. What need has he of angels, who can move and feel as angels do? What need of God, who has it within himself to penetrate the deepest mysteries? How perfect he is, the beauty of the world; how short-lived and fearful, the terror of his fellows. Man is dust, made of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, and animated by the fifth, the quintessence..

Ben bu insanlardan daha üstünüm', diye söylendim içimden. 'Bir soylu olduğum için değil, daha iyi bir insan olduğum için.

Henry VI’s regime (1450–61):In the south-west, if the Beauforts provided a Lancastrian focus in the eastern counties, then the duchy of Cornwall provided another further west, where [Lord] Bonville also provided a specifically Yorkist focus (pp. 186–7).

Household Governance’ during Edward IV’s second reign (1471–83): The involvement of household retainers in local government was one aspect that was common to all counties. There were a number of household sheriffs, as shown, and there seems to have been little difference in this policy from Edward’s first reign or, indeed, from that of Henry VI (p. 264).

He was like a few notes scattered in a strong wind, the backbone of melody long since blown out to sea.