Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

Wicked ecclesiastics who show the worst example to the people, and, above all, nobles who empty the purses of the poor by their extravagance, and disdain them for lowness of blod or foulenesse of body, for deformed shape of body or limb, for dullness of wit and uncunning of craft, and deign not to speak to them, and who are themselves stuffed with pride—of ancestry, fortune, gentility, possessions, power, comeliness, strength, children, treasure—prowde in lokynge, prowde in spekyng,… prowde in goinge, standynge and sytting. All would be drawn by fiends to Hell on the Day of Judgment.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Wicked ecclesiastics who show the worst example to the people, and, above all, nobles who empty the purses of the poor by their extravagance, and disdain them for lowness of blod or foulenesse of body, for deformed shape of body or limb, for dullness of wit and uncunning of craft, and deign not to speak to them, and who are themselves stuffed with pride—of ancestry, fortune, gentility, possessions, power, comeliness, strength, children, treasure—prowde in lokynge, prowde in spekyng,… prowde in goinge, standynge and sytting. All would be drawn by fiends to Hell on the Day of Judgment.

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About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.