A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, March 30, 2018
Lack of Interest in History
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, ed. Charles Harding Firth, Vol. III (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914), p. 1526 (from Chapter XII, on the Siege of Londonderry):