Pencil/history

Famous quotes containing the words pencil and/or history:

    The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
    Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?
    David Hume (1711–1776)