 It is the reproach of historians that they have too often turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow-men. But war plays a small part in the real story of European nations, and in that of England its part is smaller than in...  The Dublin University Calendar - Page 392by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1913Full view - About this book
 | 1906 - 1232 pages
...they have too often turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by tlieir fellow-men. But war plays a small part in the real story of European...France, and of that war the results were simply evil. If I have said little of the glories 'of Cressy, it is because I have dwelt much on the wrong and misery... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 pages
...they have too often turned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow-men. But war plays a small part in the real story of European...France, and of that war the results were simply evil. If I have said little of the glories of Cressy, it is because I have dwelt much on the wrong and misery... | |
 | 1921 - 838 pages
...regard war as unimportant in history. He very justly rebukes JR Green for a very foolish sentence : ' War plays a small part in the real story of European...that of England its part is smaller than in any.' He points out the great importance which many wars have had on the internal as well as the external... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 606 pages
...its internal from its external policy. Mr. Green regards war as mere ' butchery.' He thinks that ft ' plays a small part in the real story of European nations,...that of England its part is smaller than in any.' We ask, what this country would have been without war, morally as well as politically? We should be... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 604 pages
...ij;s internal from its external policy. Mr. Green regards war as mere ' butchery.' He thinks that it ' plays a small part in the real story of European nations,...that of England its part is smaller than in any.' We askr what this country would have been without war, morally as well as politically ? We should be... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1877 - 920 pages
...they have too often tnrned history into a mere record of the butchery of men by their fellow-men. But war plays a small part in the real story of European...France, and of that war the results were simply evil. If I have said little of the glories of Cressy, it is because I have dwelt much on the wrong and misery... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1878 - 878 pages
...they have too often turned history into a mero record of the butchery of men by their fellow-men. But war plays a small part in the real story of European...affected English society and English government is the LTundred -Years' War with France, and of that war the results were simply eviL If I have said little... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 164 pages
...law court. 7. The influence of the Roman army on politics in the later times of the Republic. 8. ' War plays a small part in the real story of European nations.' Criticise this statement. 10. Give a character of Louis XL, and point out the importance of his reign... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 150 pages
...law court. 7. The influence of the Roman army on politics in the later times of the Republic. 8. ' War plays a small part in the real story of European nations.' Criticise this statement. 9. ' Runnymede reversed the decision of Hastings.' I Comment upon thi=, 10.... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - English literature - 1881 - 506 pages
...its internal from its external policy. Mr. Green regards war as mere ' butchery.' He thinks that it ' plays a small part in the real story of European nations,...that of England its part is smaller than in any.' We ask what this country would have been without war, morally as well as politically ? We should be... | |
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