Meaning of “accept […] on […]”
In the book "The Twenty Years' Crisis" by E. H. Carr, written in 1939, I read
[men] accept the judgment of history on the past.
After checking OED and Merriam-Webster here and here, I still do not understand this "accept ... on ..." structure. The only example that seems similar is in OED:
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 530 A fact which we may surely accept on the authority of the Biographer.
Could someone please help me out and rephrase the quoted sentence? Thank you.
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In the book "The Twenty Years' Crisis" by E. H. Carr, written in 1939, I read
[men] accept the judgment of history on the past.
After checking OED and Merriam-Webster here and here, I still do not understand this "accept ... on ..." structure. The only example that seems similar is in OED:
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 530 A fact which we may surely accept on the authority of the Biographer.
Could someone please help me out and rephrase the quoted sentence? Thank you.
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In the book "The Twenty Years' Crisis" by E. H. Carr, written in 1939, I read
[men] accept the judgment of history on the past.
After checking OED and Merriam-Webster here and here, I still do not understand this "accept ... on ..." structure. The only example that seems similar is in OED:
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 530 A fact which we may surely accept on the authority of the Biographer.
Could someone please help me out and rephrase the quoted sentence? Thank you.
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In the book "The Twenty Years' Crisis" by E. H. Carr, written in 1939, I read
[men] accept the judgment of history on the past.
After checking OED and Merriam-Webster here and here, I still do not understand this "accept ... on ..." structure. The only example that seems similar is in OED:
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 530 A fact which we may surely accept on the authority of the Biographer.
Could someone please help me out and rephrase the quoted sentence? Thank you.
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