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"1o de 9 tomos, de 1485 a 1685. Não é propriamente a história mas um conjunto de artigos que cobre muito bem o período. Gostei em especial os artigos sobre Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton e Bunyan. Provam o interesse do autor ñ só na história política como cultural. A história propriamente começa no tomo 2." Feb 04, 2026 09:25PM

 
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Eça de Queirós
“- Sou uma vítima, Senhor Doutor!
- Fazes mal. Não deve haver vítimas, quando não seja senão para impedir que haja tiranos - disse o doutor, pondo o seu largo chapéu desabado.”
Eça de Queirós , O Crime Do Padre Amaro

“Das ist das dümmste Handwerk, das einer treiben kann. Rate sich jeder selbst und tue, was er nicht
lassen kann. Gerät es gut, so freue er sich seiner Weis- heit und seines Glücks; läufts übel ab, dann
bin ich bei der Hand. Wer ein Übel los sein will, der weiß immer, was er will; wer was Bessers will, als er hat, der ist ganz starblind - ja ja! Lacht nur - er spielt Blindekuh, er ertappts vielleicht; aber was?
Tut, was ihr wollt: es ist ganz einerlei!”
Goethe Johann-Wolfgang

George Orwell
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were instinctively, to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
George Orwell, Essays

Friedrich Schiller
“Den schlechten Mann muß man verachten,
Der nie bedacht, was er vollbringt.
Das ist's ja, was den Menschen zieret,
Und dazu ward ihm der Verstand,
Daß er im innern Herzen spüret,
Was er erschafft mit seiner Hand.”
Schiller Friedrich, Gedichte von Friedrich Schiller. v.2. Volume v.2 1803 [Leather Bound]

Thomas Carlyle
“Doubtless it was the Atlantic Ocean that carried Columbus to America; lucky for the Atlantic, and for Columbus and us: but the Atlantic did not quite vote that way from the first; nay IT'S votes, I believe, were very various at different stages of the matter!”
Thomas Carlyle, HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA "FREDERICK THE GREAT" Volumes 1 & 2

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