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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;... "
The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and ... - Page vii
by Charles Knight - 1874
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Universal Classics Library, Volume 8

Literature - 1901 - 440 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...
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English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834

Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - English literature - 1901 - 432 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...
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English Belles-lettres from A.D. 907 to 1834 ...

English literature - 1901 - 436 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...
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The Oxford Treasury of English Literature...: Old English to Jacobean

Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1906 - 376 pages
...most part) upon other histories whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of Hear-say, — 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...
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The Defence of Poësie: And Certain Sonnets

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1906 - 128 pages
...most part upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundation of Hear-say, having much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partialitie; better acquainted with a thousand years ago, than with the pre* sent age, and yet better...
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The Defence of Poesie: A Letter to Q. Elizabeth; A Defence of Leicester

Philip Sidney - England - 1908 - 304 pages
...Histories, whose greatest authorities are built fence of uppon the notable foundation Heresay, having Poesie much ado to accord differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality: better acquainted with a thousand yeres ago, then with the present age, and yet better knowing how...
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A Defence of Poesie and Poems

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1909 - 204 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...
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The Bible of the Reformation: Its Translators and Their Work

William James Heaton - Bible - 1910 - 314 pages
...that the historian is " laden TYNDALE'S MONUMENT. AT ins BIRTHPLACE, EITHEB NORTH NIBLEY, OR NEAR IT. with old mouse-eaten records, authorising himself,...differing writers, and to pick truth out of partiality." It is not a very flattering description. But we will set over against it Colton's dictum that, to cite...
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English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries ...

Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 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...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 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...
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