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Definition of Historians
1. historian [n] - See also: historian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Historians
Literary usage of Historians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The second group of historians present very different characteristics. ...
Revelling in classical forms the historians of the period of the Comneni and ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER XX Characteristics of Historians in Democratic Ages Historians who write in
... Historians who live in democratic ages exhibit precisely opposite ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"CHARACTERISTICS OF Historians IN DEMOCRATIC AGES. Historians who write in
aristocratic ages are wont to refer all occurrences to the particular will or ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"CHAPTER XIV Historians WRITERS ON ANCIENT AND EARLY ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY WITH
the eighteenth century, or, more precisely, in its concluding decade, ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Then followed the narrative historians: Thiers, famous at thirty years of age
... Beside the historians stand the critics and historians of literature. ..."
6. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"The French historians of the sixteenth century had in no single case equalled
... The style of the lesser English historians was artless and casual, ..."
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