Look back, and smile at perils past!

Sir Walter Scott

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Topic

Looking back The past

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

The Bridal of Triermain

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Scott, Walter, Sir [published anonymously]. "The Bridal of Triermain, or The Vale of St John." The Bridal of Triermain, Harold the Dauntless, Field of Waterloo, and Other Poems. Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co./London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1813.

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Tecumseh

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Topic
US and Native American relations
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Tecumseh
Language
English
Time
1810 1810s 19th centry
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Citation

Tecumseh. To Joseph Barron. c. 1810.

Another quote about The past

This only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone.

Agathon

Quoted in The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

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Topic
God's power God Changing the past The past
Speaker
Agathon

Author

Aristotle
Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Agathon. Quoted in Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC, bk. 6.

Current Citation

Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 7, ch. 2.