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Word: guizot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fall of the Roman Empire. "The captain of Hampshire Grenadiers," Gibbon insisted, "was not useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Indeed, says Schlesinger, "until the last half of the 19th century, the great historians were, in one way or another, captains of Hampshire Grenadiers. Macaulay, Bancroft, Guizot, Carlyle, Parkman, Henry Adams-all were men for whom the history they wrote was a derivation from the experiences they enjoyed or endured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Combative Chronicler | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

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