 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...and the subject of the momentous contest was the union or separation of Great Britain and America. The eight sessions that I sat in Parliament were a...prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. The volume of my History, which had been somewhat delayed by the novelty and tumult of a... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1849 - 780 pages
...power within the walls of parliament. ' The eight sessions that I sat in parliament,' says Gibbon, 'were a school of civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian.' Mr. Macaulay has, however, far transcended the humble position with which the great historian... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 782 pages
...eight sessions he spent in Parliament were far from being disadvantageous to him, for he was there in ' a school of civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian.' It was .so undoubtedly ; undoubtedly there is nothing like experience ; but to gain experience... | |
 | 1852 - 796 pages
...eight sessions he spent in Parliament were far from being disadvantageous to him, for he was there in ' a school of civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian.' It was so undoubtedly ; undoubtedly there is nothing like experience; but to gain experience... | |
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The eight sessions that I sat in parliament were a school of civil prudence, the first and most essential virtue of an historian. 
