 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...most part, upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...most part, upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay ; having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...leisure to the moralist to say so much, but that he (loaden with old mouse-eaten records ; authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories,...differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...most part upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with this present age, and yet better knowing how... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...most part, upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of o censure, I may have leave to lament. For a wise man, ho seemed ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1286 pages
...office which Sir Philip Sydney somewhat satirised when he described the historian, "loaden PREFACE. V with old mouse-eaten records ; authorising himself,...minute. He has to select from a vast storehouse of facts ; bat he cannot make a judicious selection without a broad comprehension of their relative value. How... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1889 - 232 pages
...other Histories, whose greatest authorities are built vppon the notable foundation Heresay,10 hauing much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality: better acquainted with a 1000. yeres ago, the with the nicht bez. present age, and yet bettor knowing... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...most part upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon 30 the notable foundation of hearsay ; having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality ; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how... | |
 | Aestheticism (Literature) - 1896 - 490 pages
...most part upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality, better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better knowing how this... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 330 pages
...most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality, better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with 1 A principal clause — // will be well, or... | |
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The historian scarcely giveth leisure to the moralist to say so much, but that he, laden with old mouse-eaten records, authorizing himself (for the most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of hearsay;... 
