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 831845Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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