G. M. Trevelyan
G. M. Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM CBE FRS FBA, was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth16 February 1876
life
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
land village cricket
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
two doctors mind
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.
hiking usual feet-and-walking
After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
education degrees diploma
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
distance men soul
I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
peasants cricket ifs
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
summer children fun
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis! Squire, farmer, blacksmith and labourer with their women and children came to see the fun, were at ease together and happy all the summer afternoon. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
perfection tea modern
Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
people ordinary way
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.
intellect evidence historian
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
men space history
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
song italian night
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
children earth spirit
We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.