1653-1716.
From a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, &c.
I knew a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE.
1672-1751.
On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.
I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius Halicarnassus, I think, that History is Philosophy teaching by examples.