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“History, which by expounding actions past teacheth to regulate the future, and furnisheth us with wisdom at the cost of other mens experience.”

He presents history as a practical teacher whose lessons can be learned without repeating the past. · Preface, The History of Philosophy, 1655

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Thomas Stanley

3 September 1625–12 April 1678

Thomas Stanley, born on 3 September 1625 and dead on 12 April 1678, was one of the most cultivated English writers of the seventeenth century: a lyric poet of the Cavalier age, a translator of Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and Spanish literature, an editor of Aeschylus, a patron and friend of writers, and the author…

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