Orrery/history

Famous quotes containing the words orrery and/or history:

    Word of gloom from the war, one day;
    Johnston pressed at the front, they say.
    Little Giffen was up and away;
    A tear—his first—as he bade good-by,
    Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
    “I’ll write, if spared!” There was news of the fight;
    But none of Giffen.—He did not write.
    —Francis Orrery Ticknor (1822–1874)

    Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
    —G.M. (George Macaulay)