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Sentences starting with history

History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers. [4]
History at every turn! [11]
History proves that to take anything away from the faith is to atrophy, to destroy it. [9]
History had been thrust into the background. [9]
History will brand these men with shame for all time. [9]
History says that the temples of the Acropolis were filled with the noblest works of Praxiteles and Phidias, and of many a great master in sculpture besides--and surely these elegant fragments attest it. [5]
History must do the same. [2]
History shows us that these justifications of the events have no common sense and are all contradictory, as in the case of killing a man as the result of recognizing his rights, and the killing of millions in Russia for the humiliation of England. [2]
History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it. [5]
History is never so illogical. [6]

Sentences ending with history

And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
Well, then, don't you see the fateful moment has come in Irish life and history? [11]
He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
Who was this woman that knew her and her history? [11]
I could have wished to leave untold the story of the English mission, an episode in Motley's life full of heart-burnings, and long to be regretted as a passage of American history. [6]
The sea, the winds of heaven, had aided others since the dawn of history. [9]
The simple figures whose inmost being I have endeavored to reveal to the reader fill the canvas of a picture where, in the dark background, rolls the flowing ocean of the world's history. [10]
Dublin and Ireland were shocked and thrilled; England imagined she had come upon one of the most violent episodes of Irish history. [11]
While he ate, we smoked and chatted; and when he was finishing he found his voice at last, and of his own accord broke out with his personal history. [5]
In his pages we find characters and scenes minutely set forth in elaborate and characteristic detail, which is relieved and heightened in effect by the artistic breadth of light and shade thrown across the broader prospects of history. [6]

Short sentences using history

Read history, hain't you? [9]
What history crowds upon us! [4]
But to return to history. [7]
What was their subsequent history? [5]
Look back on our history! [10]
His history was not known. [5]
There you have my history. [9]
History sometimes reverses itself. [9]
History constantly repeats itself. [4]
They had their history. [5]

Sentences containing history two or more times

We are here to celebrate one of the greatest events of American history, and not only in American history, but in the world's history. [5]
I am for the man who was the first settler on the St. Lawrence and this section of the continent--his history, his tradition, his honour and fame are in the history books of the world. [11]
These men suffered the bitterest death that has been recorded in the history of those mountains, freighted as that history is with grisly tragedies. [5]
I remember that she taught history, following, I suppose, the American notion that any one can teach history who has a text-book, just as he or she can teach literature with the same help. [4]
Every line was part of the history of the country, a part of the history of many lives, and it was all part of the ritual of the temple of the great god Chance. [11]
For the history of the United Provinces is not at all a provincial history. [6]
If this side of the picture of that early day has not before been put into history, then history has been to that degree incomplete, for it had and has its rightful place there. [5]
To the majority of men I fancy that literature is very much the same that history is; and history is presented as a museum of antiquities and curiosities, classified, arranged, and labeled. [4]
His classmate, Mr. Josiah Quincy, writes thus of his college days:-- "Two only of my classmates can be fairly said to have got into history, although one of them, Charles W. Upham [the connection of mine referred to above] has written history very acceptably. [6]
Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history. [2]

More example sentences with the word history in them

Read history, and you will see. [9]
Look history over; you will see. [5]
I could tell you something--the history of this day, even--that would make you despise me. [8]
Let me tell you briefly the history of my personal relation to tobacco. [5]
They swarm about you at every step; no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem or within its neighborhood seems to be without a stirring and important history of its own. [5]
During three successive years, 1868, 1869, 1870, Emerson delivered a series of Lectures at Harvard University on the "Natural History of the Intellect. [6]
We skip ten years and this history finds certain changes to record. [5]
King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
I determined to write to my dear Alixe the true history of my life, even to the point--and after--of this thing which now was bringing me to so ill a pass. [11]
My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. [5]
Still more difficult would it be to find an instance in history of the aim of an historical personage being so completely accomplished as that to which all Kutuzov's efforts were directed in 1812. [2]
I believe it would have been found that most of these persons were of ardent temperament and of considerable imagination, and that their history would show that Perkinism was not the first nor the last hobby-horse they rode furiously. [6]
There was the world of the Old Testament, of David and Samson, and of those dim figures in the dawn of history, called the Patriarchs. [4]
Tylor's very interesting work, 'Researches into the Early History of Mankind,' 1865, chaps. [1]
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. [5]
They are acquainted with the entire history of the heavens and the earth. [10]
I had already, with Mieczyslaw, devoted myself eagerly to the history of the ancient East, and Lepsius especially approved these studies. [10]
You find fault with his history because it seems to be lies. [5]
He filled it with episodes and incidents that Washington never heard of, and he did it so convincingly that although I knew none of it had happened, from that day to this I do not know any history but Sala's. [5]
The oration began with a lengthy tribute to the resources and history of his state, and ended by a declaration that the speaker was in Congress at no man's bidding, but as the servant of the common people of his district. [9]
Many times I wished that the charming anecdotes had not stopped with their happy climaxes, but had continued the pleasing history of the several benefactors and beneficiaries. [5]
The latter opinion will probably prevail, for it has nature on its side, and the course of history, and the imagination. [4]
There are reasons why he does not come, as your honour kens, knowing the history of Erris Boyne. [11]
He is meek, whose soul is open, clear and pure as a mirror, and the greatest philosophers, the noblest minds I have met in life and history were also meek. [10]
Then this man, whom nothing escaped which could by any possibility be made to serve as a clue, said: "There are cases in detective history to show that criminals have been detected through peculiarities, in their appetites. [5]
The author from whom Montaigne took his facts is the elder Pliny, who, in his Natural History, Book X, Chapter 83, says, "Other animals become sated with veneral pleasures; man hardly knows any satiety. [5]
And Queen Tryphoena, whom history recorded as a monster, had not killed her husband, but merely thrust him from the throne. [10]
She knew the whole history of the past, and it touched her in a tender spot. [11]
Probably in the whole history of crime there never was a more peculiar case. [11]
In reviewing the whole course of its history we read a long list of honored names, and a precious record written in private memories, in public charities, in permanent contributions to medical science, in generous sacrifices for the country. [3]
It seemed worth while to try how far the principle of evolution would throw light on some of the more complex problems in the natural history of man. [1]
Listen to me while I show you the parallel of the story of the astronomer in the history of medicine. [6]
The distinguished part which you, Mr. Minister, have acted in the history of that interesting country, is well known here. [7]
The next things which interest us when we travel are, first, the people; next, the novelties; and finally the history of the places and countries visited. [5]
I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural History, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. [6]
We couldn't tell what interpretation succeeding ages would put upon our lives and history and literature when they have become remote and shadowy. [4]
That is exactly what I wanted--precisely what I wanted--when I was describing to myself Joan of Arc, after studying her history and her character for twelve years diligently. [5]
Within the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out, and the "parties of the second part" gently rebuked by Xerxes. [5]
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? [6]
Infant as I was, I presumed to grapple with masses of learning almost beyond the strength of the giants of history. [6]
So here she was, forecasting the veritable history of future prisoners of the Castle d'If, without knowing it. [5]
Now when I was your age..." I knew his history by heart, a common one in this country, although he made an honourable name instead of a dishonourable one. [9]
The editorial, which was written by Mr. Olin Brad, and was in his best Macaulay style, began somewhat humorously by alluding to the curious interest of the public in ancient history, citing Mr. Froude and Mr. Carlyle, and the legend of Casper Hauser. [4]
One of these was the History of the Conquest of Mexico, which he afterwards surrendered to Mr. Prescott, and another was the "Life of Washington," which was to wait many years for fulfillment. [4]
The lost battle was the famous disaster that is called in history the Battle of the Herrings. [5]
In her, I was sure, was personified that courage for which her order will go down eternally through the pages of history, and in my darker moments I pictured her standing beside the guillotine with a smile that haunted me. [9]
But the island was not true to itself or its history if it did not divide itself into factions, headed by the Seigneurs, and there had been no ground for good division for five years till De la Foret came. [11]
I think there was no individual in the party whose brain was not teeming with thoughts and images and memories invoked by the grand history of the venerable city that lay before us, but still among them all was no "voice of them that wept. [5]
Old King Cole was himself a merry old soul, if we may put any faith in the pages of history. [12]
While the captain was giving the mate his final orders, Mr. Orchardson, for such was his name, regaled us with a part of his life's history. [9]
I hope it was genuine, for they cheated infamously in the matter of this concretion, which ought to come out of an animal's stomach, but the real history of which resembles what is sometimes told of modern sausages. [3]
That worthy woman was delighted to tell the history of her most distinguished boarder. [6]
His later history was called for, and when he said he had 'accidentally' killed a man, considerable satisfaction was expressed; when he added that the man was a priest, he was roundly applauded, and had to take a drink with everybody. [5]
I suppose it was because I could not conceive of a small country having so large a history. [5]
His distant home was also hers, and he even knew her uncle--her father's brother--and her father's sad history. [10]
But behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it. [5]
This act of war in fancy, dress, with its two steps forward and one back, and the singing of a song, is one of the most fatal to the masculine peace of mind in the whole history of carnage. [4]
It has no vital significance in the history of Jean Jacques Barbille, though it has its place as a swivel on which the future swung. [11]
Nobody in the village, no student in the University, knew his history. [6]
It is the very way Professor Osborn and I built the colossal skeleton brontosaur that stands fifty-seven feet long and sixteen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton that exists on the planet. [5]
Looking to a very remote period in the history of the world, we find, to use Sir J. Lubbock's well-known terms, a paleolithic and neolithic period; and no one will pretend that the art of grinding rough flint tools was a borrowed one. [1]
Powhatan is a very large figure in early Virginia history, and deserves his prominence. [4]
This is the verdict which his previous history must certainly deliver upon this episode, I think. [5]
This man, for us, has no history. [11]
At the right upper corner is a fresh-looking youth of whose name and history I have as yet learned nothing. [6]
It is precisely upon that part of the history of the country that one important omission is made by Judge Douglas. [7]
We look back upon it with softened memory, and already see it again in the light of history. [4]
It is made up of very simple details--just grass, and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin--and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history. [5]
Next, Wilson took up Luigi's history. [5]
Dyck had built up for himself a reputation as no one in all the history of the island had been able to do. [11]
I took them up again a few years ago, after reading with genuine pleasure in Otto Ribbeck's masterpiece, The History of Roman Poetry, the portions devoted to Plautus and Terence. [10]
To have piled up a correspondence of that size in the time, and under the circumstances already noted, quality considered, may be counted a record in the history of travel letters. [5]
There was an unusual lock of benignity upon his firmly moulded features, and an air of ease which rather surprised Mr. Bradshaw, who did not know all the social experiences which had formed a part of the old Master's history. [6]
It was not until she had put her napkin on the table that she awoke with a start and gazed into his face and saw written there still another history than the one he had been telling her. [9]
I think it unlikely that that innings has ever had its parallel in the history of horse-billiards. [5]
If the Knobs University bill could only go through, what a change would be wrought in the condition of most of the persons in this history. [5]
The writers of universal histories and of the history of culture are like people who, recognizing the defects of paper money, decide to substitute for it money made of metal that has not the specific gravity of gold. [2]
He is a unique fellow, with a strange history. [11]
Those who have unimpaired memories may recollect the fortune amassed, many years previous to this history, by one Rodney Henderson, gathered and enlarged by means not indictable, but which illustrate the wide divergence between the criminal code and the moral law. [4]
I shall therefore undertake a sober examination of its principles, its facts, and some points of its history. [3]
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us. [7]
There is the tutor of history. [4]
The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us. [2]
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only on the history of pin-heads. [6]
I had been trusting to vague outlines of history; I felt when he began to talk that I was dealing with a man who not only knew history, but had lived it. [11]
The same is true of the Romans throughout their history. [4]
He is the true history of the American people in his time. [6]
We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history. [5]
The subject is treated in great detail by Pettigrew, History of Egyptian Mummies. [10]
I wrote The Trail of the Sword because the early history of the struggles between the French and English and the North American Continent interested me deeply and fascinated my imagination. [11]
Well, history and tradition testify that the heart is just about what it was in the beginning; it has undergone no shade of change. [5]
The old minister took it for granted that the Reverend Mr. Fairweather knew the private history of his parishioner's family. [6]
It is far too late in this history to pretend that Honora was, by preference, an early riser, and therefore it must have been the excitement caused by her surroundings that made her bathe and dress with alacrity that morning. [9]
Patience was only too delighted, and took her into her museum of natural history, art, religion, and vegetation. [4]
The story as told in that book is an account of what might have happened, rather than history. [5]
I'll show it to you some time--it contains the history of the brave Roland. [10]
Among the many to whom my apologies and thanks are due is Mr. Pierre Chouteau of St. Louis, whose unremitting labors have preserved and perpetuated the history and traditions of the country of his ancestors. [9]
For a reply to these questions the common sense of mankind turns to the science of history, whose aim is to enable nations and humanity to know themselves. [2]
Modern history replying to these questions says: you want to know what this movement means, what caused it, and what force produced these events? [2]
The next addition to the young Shakespeare's Stratford history comes easy. [5]

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