Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

“I sat by an eminent Storyteller and Politician who takes half an Ounce in five Seconds, and has mortgaged a pretty Tenement near the Town, meerly [sic] to improve and dung his Brains with this prolifick Powder.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)

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