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The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the mater… - William Hickling Prescott
" "The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
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About William Hickling Prescott
William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 29, 1859) was an American historian, best known for his History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru.
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The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakespeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.
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