 | Cedric Ellsworth Smith - English literature - 1928 - 478 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... | |
 | Marion Ansel Taylor - Drama - 1973 - 260 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 9. "Thomas N. [Thomas Norton] to the Reader," second preface to Richard Grafton, Chronicles,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 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... | |
 | Annabel M. Patterson - Books and reading - 1984 - 308 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." An Apology for Poetry, ed. Geoffrey Shepherd (London, 1965), p. 105. 42 See Benjamin Boyce, "History... | |
 | Jan Adrianus van Dorsten, Dominic Baker-Smith, Arthur F. Kinney - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 268 pages
...most part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are built upon the notable foundations of hearsay; having much ado to accord differing writers and to pick truth out of their partiality; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age'.3 The others... | |
 | Heather Dubrow, Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 387 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."31 The historian is constrained by 96 his burden of facts; "many times he must tell events,... | |
 | Peter Elmer, Nick Webb, Roberta Wood, Nicholas Webb - History - 2000 - 428 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... | |
 | Philip Sidney - English poetry - 2002 - 182 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... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 286 pages
...part) upon other histories, whose greatest authorities are 10 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... | |
 | Bart Van Es - History - 2002 - 260 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 their partiality; better acquainted with a thousand years ago than with the present age, and yet better... | |
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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;... 
