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History

noun

(pl. histories)

The aggregate of past events.

A record or narrative description of past events. Synonyms: account, chronicle, story. "He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" , "The story of exposure to lead"

The discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings. "History takes the long view"

The continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future.

All that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge. "From the beginning of history"

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"History" Quotes from Famous Books

... under subjection to Henri IV. by the rigor of his executions. The head of one of the richest families in France, he had considerably increased the revenues of his great estates by marrying seven months before the night on which this history begins, Jeanne de Saint-Savin, a young lady who, by a not uncommon chance in days when people were killed off like flies, had suddenly become the representative of both branches of the Saint-Savin family. Necessity ...

— The Hated Son • Honore de Balzac

... (sententiae). 'Great store was set both in speaking and writing on a command of an abundance of general truths or commonplaces, and even at school boys were trained to commit them to memory, to expand them, and illustrate them from history.'[57] Finally they were taught to write verse. Such at least is a legitimate inference from the extraordinary precocity shown by many Roman authors.[58] This literary training contained much that was of great ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... Difficulties. Correspondence with Humboldt. Excursion to the Coast of Normandy. First Sight of the Sea. Correspondence concerning Professorship at Neuchatel. Birthday Fete. Invitation to Chair of Natural History at Neuchatel. ...

— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz

... Voltaire, and Burke, for the "Gallery of Portraits," then publishing by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. But his time, when unoccupied at the office, was principally devoted to metaphysical research and the history of philosophical opinion. His spirits, sometimes apt to be graver than is the wont of youth, now became more animated and even gay, so that his family were cheered on to hope that his health was firmly gaining ground. The unpleasant symptoms which manifested themselves in his earlier years ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various

... that our deliverers were near. The next day, scaling the walls or battering down the gates, they forced their way into the city and effected our rescue. The day following, the Roman Catholic Cathedral was relieved,—the defence of which forms the brightest page in the history of the siege, and in the afternoon we held a solemn service of thanksgiving. The palaces were found vacant, the Empress Dowager having fled with her entire court. She was the same Empress who had fled from the British and French ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

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