The Use and Study of History: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered in Dublin, in March, 1841 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Were there no other reason, therefore, why we should begin to brush the dust from our historic book-shelves, than the example which all sur rounding countries daily dare us to imitate, the necessity of not allowing ourselves to be distanced in any part of the race, ought to stimnlate our industry and zeal. I will not admit that there is any reason, why we should not compete with any nation, however lofty its pretensions be, in every branch of intellectual research, learning, or crea tion. There is nothin g Irishmen have delibe rately, and perseveringly tried to do, that they have not triumphantly succeeded in doing; and, so long as I remember that you are the country men of Swift, of Goldsmith, and of Burke, I never will believe that there exists any natural or intelligible reason, why you should not acquire the habit of studying that history, whose wisdom and light radiate throughout all their composi tions.

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