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The events appearing to us consecutive, are essentially consentaneous: indistinct and transient disclosures of the decree, foredoomed before all Time, and not to be fulfilled until Time shall pass away: dim glimpses of the changeless sky, caught between the vaporous margins of the driving clouds.

Francis Palgrave

History is only another aspect of Time; and Time never stands still.

Francis Palgrave

We must give it up, that speechless past; whether fact or chronology, doctrine or mythology; whether in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America; at Thebes or Palenque, on Lycian shore or Salisbury Plain: lost is lost, gone is gone forever.

Francis Palgrave

Few similes possess such truth as that most trite one - the Stream of Time - or rather the simile is the abstract idea of Time, presented to our sensuous perceptions, in the only form intelligible to the human mind.

Francis Palgrave

History requires no less study than Law. We cannot dabble in its practical application. Would you take upon yourself to pay down your purchase-money for an acre of land, upon your knowledge of conveyancing derived from Blackstone's Commentaries?

Francis Palgrave

Francis Palgrave

Francis Palgrave

Born: July, 1788

Died: July 6, 1861 (aged 73)

Bio: Sir Francis Palgrave, KH FRS, born Francis Ephraim Cohen, was an English archivist and historian. He was Deputy Keeper of the Public Record Office from its foundation in 1838 until his death; and he is also remembered for his many scholarly publications.

Known for:

History of the Anglo-Saxons (1831)
Truths and fictions of the middle ages (1837)
Astrology and Alchemy

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