 | English literature - 1815 - 568 pages
...Ralegh, ' in writing amo* dern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply 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... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Great Britain - 1837 - 398 pages
...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,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 404 pages
...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
...whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply 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 - 1841 - 472 pages
...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
...whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his 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 - 1844 - 424 pages
...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 - 658 pages
...whosoever, in writing a modern ' history, shall follow Truth too near the heeh, it may haply strike out * his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath...such special allusion to him, I will not forbear to enrich these pages with some further examples of his noble thoughts. Of the ordinary absence of charity,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 606 pages
...in writing a modern ' history, shall follow Truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out ' hit teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her fol' lowers"and servants into greater miseries." So may the loss we have sustained be the better accounted... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...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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... 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. 
