“… Men in general take up scheme after scheme, as circumstances suggest one or another, and therefore most biographies are compelled to pass from one subject to another, and to enter into a multitude of minute questions, to divide the life carefully into periods by chronological landmarks accurately determined, to trace the gradual development of character and ripening or change of opinions.”

— John Robert Seeley

p. 18 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433068235500;view=1up;seq=48
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British historian 1834–1895

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