Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quote

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory...


The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman (ed. 1836)


Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of...

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of...