Famous quotes containing the words english and/or history:
“But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody Shirt. A Spectre has very often saved a Play, though he has done nothing but stalked across the Stage, or rose through a Cleft of it, and sunk again without speaking one Word.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)