Historical Research: An Outline of Theory and PracticeH. Holt, 1911 - 350 páginas |
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... middle ages apart from the narrative . Sharon Turner at the beginning of the nineteenth century , after giving the early political history of the Anglo - Saxons , describes their government and customs , but without showing the intimate ...
... middle ages apart from the narrative . Sharon Turner at the beginning of the nineteenth century , after giving the early political history of the Anglo - Saxons , describes their government and customs , but without showing the intimate ...
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... middle ages at whose hands we receive by transmission the litera- ture of the ancients . At the same time we are obliged to take note of a great amount of fraudulent matter 1 Taylor , Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times , 20 ...
... middle ages at whose hands we receive by transmission the litera- ture of the ancients . At the same time we are obliged to take note of a great amount of fraudulent matter 1 Taylor , Transmission of Ancient Books to Modern Times , 20 ...
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... middle ages . The question of genuineness will arise before the student in many of these yet . The reasons for the astonishing productivity of those centuries in base material will be discussed more appropriately later on , yet the ...
... middle ages . The question of genuineness will arise before the student in many of these yet . The reasons for the astonishing productivity of those centuries in base material will be discussed more appropriately later on , yet the ...
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... middle ages . Since the Renaissance modern scholarship has given them up . The church itself no longer maintains the validity of these documents , but bases its claims for supremacy on other grounds.1 1 The Donation of Constantine . See ...
... middle ages . Since the Renaissance modern scholarship has given them up . The church itself no longer maintains the validity of these documents , but bases its claims for supremacy on other grounds.1 1 The Donation of Constantine . See ...
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... middle ages members of the learned classes , who were at that time exclusively ecclesiastics , did not hesitate to fabricate deeds , charters , grants , and other docu- ments which confirmed them in rights of property or other ...
... middle ages members of the learned classes , who were at that time exclusively ecclesiastics , did not hesitate to fabricate deeds , charters , grants , and other docu- ments which confirmed them in rights of property or other ...
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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.