1 If you wish, I will tell you your whole history.
2 Meanwhile he begged his guest to consider himself at home, and, after seating him in an armchair, made preparations to listen to the newcomer's discourse on natural history.
3 And he related to his guest the whole history of his acquaintanceship and subsequent rupture with the General.
4 In short, every possible item of evidence was exhumed, and the whole of his previous history investigated.
5 Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: VIII 6 In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 1: VIII 7 There is no need to appeal to universal history to prove that; only ask yourself, if you are a man and have lived at all.
8 And then I must call your attention to the history teacher.
9 Now here is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov's wars.
10 "It's ancient history," said another, guessing that it referred to a former war.
11 The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledge is divided.
12 The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.
13 Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
14 To understand the laws of this continuous movement is the aim of history.
15 It needs no critical exertion to reduce utterly to dust any deductions drawn from history.