Historical Research: An Outline of Theory and PracticeH. Holt, 1911 - 350 páginas |
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... means primarily a learning , or knowing by inquiry , but every age has declared for itself to what that inquiry shall be directed and what subjects are worth know- ing as history . Usage has remained steadfast only in this , that in ...
... means primarily a learning , or knowing by inquiry , but every age has declared for itself to what that inquiry shall be directed and what subjects are worth know- ing as history . Usage has remained steadfast only in this , that in ...
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... means at its command to establish the outside data of a source . The definition explains the kind of things to be proved , not the means used to prove them . Owing to their essential importance , 1 1 The term Higher Criticism has in ...
... means at its command to establish the outside data of a source . The definition explains the kind of things to be proved , not the means used to prove them . Owing to their essential importance , 1 1 The term Higher Criticism has in ...
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... means of discovery and transmission are alleged for a manuscript or docu- ment or relic , in order to explain the late appearance of it , there is ground for suspicious inquiry . In modern times the forging of letters is confined ...
... means of discovery and transmission are alleged for a manuscript or docu- ment or relic , in order to explain the late appearance of it , there is ground for suspicious inquiry . In modern times the forging of letters is confined ...
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... means exhausted in this brief review . Bi- ography has offered a tempting field for invention , and genealogy , which is in fact a condensed form of biography and family history , has led many a writer into the realm of fantasy and ...
... means exhausted in this brief review . Bi- ography has offered a tempting field for invention , and genealogy , which is in fact a condensed form of biography and family history , has led many a writer into the realm of fantasy and ...
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... means of identifica- Palæography as an Auxili- tion owes its usefulness to the vast amount of study devoted to it for the past century and more . Not ary Science . only the interests of philology and literature have drawn attention to ...
... means of identifica- Palæography as an Auxili- tion owes its usefulness to the vast amount of study devoted to it for the past century and more . Not ary Science . only the interests of philology and literature have drawn attention to ...
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Página 274 - Of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Página 5 - He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind.
Página 198 - The late war, although reluctantly declared by Congress, had become a necessary resort to assert the rights and independence of the nation. It has been waged with a success which is the natural result of the wisdom of the legislative councils, of the patriotism of the people, of the public spirit of the militia, and of the valor of the military and naval forces of the country.
Página 8 - It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object — that is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future.
Página 169 - Forasmuch as manifest sin, vicious, carnal and abominable living, is daily used and committed amongst the little and small abbeys, priories and other religious houses of monks, canons and nuns...
Página 2 - THIS is a publication of the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, in order that the actions of men may not be effaced by time, nor the great and wondrous deeds displayed both by Greeks and barbarians* deprived of renown ; and among the rest, for what cause they waged war upon each other.
Página 170 - And albeit that many continual visitations hath been heretofore had by the space of two hundred years and more for an honest and charitable reformation of such unthrifty, carnal, and abominable living, yet nevertheless little or none amendment is hitherto had, but their vicious living shamelessly increaseth and augmenteth...
Página 198 - To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: "I lay before Congress Copies of the Treaty of Peace and Amity between The United States and His Britannic Majesty...
Página 6 - I have preferred to pass lightly and briefly over the details of foreign wars and diplomacies, the personal adventures of kings and nobles, the pomp of courts, or the intrigues of favourites, and to dwell at length on the incidents of that constitutional, intellectual, and social advance in which we read the history of the nation itself.
Página 114 - Saxons, and his son -Sthelbald, with all their army, fought a long time against them at a place called Ac-lea, ie the Oak-plain, and there, after a lengthened battle, which was fought with much bravery on both sides, the greater part of the pagan multitude was destroyed and cut to pieces, so that we never heard of their being so slaughtered, either before or since, in any country, in one day ; and the Christians gained an honourable victory, and were triumphant over the place of death.