 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 482 pages
...his partiality towards them : And they were immediately executed by orders from sir John Coniers." THERE is no part of English history since the Conquest...agree, are incredible and contradicted by records ;* and it is remarkable, that this profound darkness falls upon us just on the eve of the restoration... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 514 pages
...and his partiality towards them: And they were immediately executed by orders from sir John Comers." THERE is no part of English history since the Conquest...agree, are incredible and contradicted by records;* and it is remarkable, that this profound darkness falls upon us just on the eve of the restoration... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 528 pages
...brother-inlaw of the king, and they were immediately executed. David Hume very judiciously observes, that there is no part of English history since the Conquest,...uncertain, so little authentic or consistent as that period of the wars between the two Roses: historians differ about many material circumstances ; some... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 524 pages
...brother-inlaw of the king, and they were immediately executed. David Hume very judiciously observes, that there is no part of English history since the Conquest,...obscure, so uncertain, so little authentic or consistent us that period of the wars between the two Roses: historians differ about many material circumstances;... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1826 - 318 pages
...the county for which the members were to be returned. CHAPTER XII. EDWARD THE FOURTH. 1461 — 1483. THERE is no part of English history, since the conquest, so obscure, and inconsistent, as that of the wars between the two houses of York and Lancaster. Some events of... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 386 pages
...his partiality towards them : and they were immediately executed by orders from sir John Corners34. There is no part of English history since the Conquest...almost all agree, are incredible and contradicted by records33 ; and it is remarkable, that this profound 34 Fabian, fol. 217. M We shall give an instance... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...affairs, Hume has a striking passage, which I cannot refuse myself the gratification of transcribing. " There is no part of English history since the conquest,...agree, are incredible, and contradicted by records; and it is remarkable, that this profound darkness falls • Hamlet. upon us, just on the eve of the... | |
 | 1835 - 428 pages
...affairs, Hume has a striking passage, which I cannot refuse myself the gratification of transcribing. " There is no part of English history since the conquest,...agree, are incredible, and contradicted by records ; and it is remarkable, that this profound darkness falls * Hamlet. upon us, just on the eve of the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...of manners and events, are scanty and doubtful. " There is," observes the writer just referred to, " no part of English history since the Conquest so obscure,...consistent, as that of the wars between the two Roses. All we can distinguish with certainty through the deep cloud which covers that period, is a scene of... | |
 | John Jefferson - General Peace Convention - 1843 - 138 pages
...Hume, the historian, on the character of these times, deserves to be quoted in this place. He says, " There is no part of English history since the conquest so obscure and so little authentic as that of these Wars of the Roses. All we can distinguish with certainty through... | |
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There is no part of English history since the Conquest so obscure, so uncertain, so little authentic or consistent, as that of the wars between the two roses... 
