Nicholas Harris Nicolas

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“Chronology and Geography have been justly called the "eyes of History," without the lights of which all is chaos and uncertainty; but perhaps a better simile would be, that Dates are to History, what the Latitude and Longitude are to Navigation, — fixing the exact position of, the objects to which they are applied.”

“Every event in History arose from some preceding transaction, and became, in its turn, the parent of others, either more or less important; hence, however trifling in themselves, or, if viewed without relation to other circumstances, however immaterial the precise time of their occurrence may be, there are few that had not some influence on the state of the nation in which they took place, and not unfrequently also, on the affairs of neighbouring countries.”