 | 1880 - 820 pages
...1874, 1876, 1878. 1. IN his inimitable "Constitutional History of England," Canon Stubbs remarks : " The roots of the present lie deep in the past, and...is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is." When we understand how any thing has become what it w we understand its history.... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1874 - 688 pages
...is necessary to give the reader a personal hold on the past and a right judgment of the present. For the roots of the present lie deep in the past, and...is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is. It is true Constitutional History has a point of view, an insight, and a language... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 682 pages
...clears us of this deed." The Eegius Professor of Modern History, Canon Stubbs, has written truly : " The roots of the present lie deep in the past, and...is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is." We cannot afford to forget the lessons which the experience of earlier times... | |
 | 1879 - 634 pages
...sympathies. The debt of statesmen is of a more direct and personal nature. Canon Stubbs has said : ' The roots of the ' present lie deep in the past, and...dead ' to the man who would learn how the present comes to be ' what it is.' The political forces which are operating now are the result of forces which... | |
 | James Fleming - 1880 - 192 pages
...Stubbs says, in his History of England, that " the roots of the present lie deep in the past, and that nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is. The political forces which are operating now are the result of forces which... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...profound learning and philosophic grasp cannot be too highly praised. Its keynote is thus struck : — " The roots of the present lie deep in the past, and...is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is. It is true constitutional history has a point of view, an insight, and a language... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 pages
...to the deposition of Richard II. 'The roots of the present lie deep in the past,' says Mr. Stubos, * and nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is. It is true, constitutional historyhas a point of view, an insight, and a language... | |
 | 1883 - 504 pages
...is necessary to give the reader a personal hold on the past and a right judgment of the present. For the roots of the present lie deep in the past, and...is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is."— StublMt, Constitutional History of England. IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL... | |
 | Charles Howard Shinn - 1884 - 348 pages
...says in his " Constitutional History," " the roots of the present lie deep in the past," and that " nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is." The very kind of local law and self-government known to the miners of California... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 pages
...progress must be built on the solid foundations of that which has gone before. Professor Stubbs says — The roots of the present lie deep in the past, and...would learn how the present came to be what it is. What our ancestors have sown for us we reap, and we will find it is the spirit of the dead that practically... | |
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For the roots of the present lie deep in the past, and nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present comes to be what it is. 
