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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,—and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,—the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,—and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,—the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.
Approximate author period: c. 1843 AD · industrial
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- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield)
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- Approximate author period: c. 1843 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Sybil. Book i. Chap. iii.
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