From Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, by William Prescott
PERFECT HISTORIAN
"He must be -- in short, there is no end to what a perfect historian must be and do. It is hardly necessary to add that such a monster never did and never will exist."
From Irving's Conquest of Granada
Sunday, April 21, 2013
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