British historian (1837-1883)
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I shall never be content till I have superseded Hume, and I believe I shall supersede him—not because I am so good a writer, but because, being an adequate writer, I have a larger and grander conception than he had of the organic life of a …
As you see in my own Wee-Book, I think moral and intellectual facts as much facts for the historian as military or political facts.
I won't divide by Kings, a system whereby History is made Tory unawares and infants are made to hate History.
So prodigious has been the store of original documents, charters, rolls, dispatches, memoirs which have of late been disinterred from the archives of the past, that history has retrograded into annals.