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" It will be said by many that I might have been more pleasing to the reader if I had written the story of mine own times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another. To this I answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history... "
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 83
1845
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 13

English literature - 1815 - 568 pages
...Gouvernement precedent. A Paris. 1814. ' "V\7"HOSOEVER,' says Sir Walter Ralegh, ' in writing amo* dern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it...teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that goes after her too far off, loseth her sight...
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The Life of Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England in the ..., Volume 1

Cuthbert William Johnson - Great Britain - 1837 - 398 pages
...that whoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may, perchance, strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater difficulties : he that goes after her too far off, loseth her sight,...
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Geschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts und des neunzehnten bis zum Sturz ...

Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1836 - 672 pages
...ftrcben foil, ©ir Sat; ter fagt: Whosoever in modern history shall follow truth toe near the Inn-Is it may haply strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that has led her followers into greater miseries. He that goes after her too far off loseth her sight aud...
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The life of sir Edward Coke, with memoirs of his contemporaries, Volume 1

Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 404 pages
...that whoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may, perchance, strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that, hath led her followers and servants into greater difficulties : he that goes after her too far off, loseth her sight,...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...contemporary passions. He has himself acquainted us of this loss to our domestic political history: " It will be said by many that I might have been more...teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that goes after her too far off loseth her sight and...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that goes after her too far off loseth her sight and...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 360 pages
...political history : " It will be said by many that I might have been more pleasing to the reader if 1 had written the story of mine own times, having been...teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that goes * Hoskyns wrote many poems. A manuscript...
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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh: Founded on Authentic and Original Documents ...

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Biography & Autobiography - 1844 - 430 pages
...that whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that goes after her too far off, loseth her sight,...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 1

Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 604 pages
...whosoever, in writing a modern ' history, shall follow Truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out 1 his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath...such special allusion to him, I will not forbear to «nrich these pages with some further examples of his noble thoughts. Of the ordinary absence of charity,...
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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, Founded on Authentic and Original Documents

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...that whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that goes after her too far off, loseth her sight,...
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