 | John Richard Green - 1875 - 912 páginas
...its title ; it is a history, not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People. At the risk of sacrificing much that was interesting...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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1875 - 538 páginas
...than will be found to b« the case in these pages, " At the risk," Mr. Green says in his preface, " of sacrificing much that was interesting and attractive...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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1875 - 544 páginas
...in his preface, " of sacrificing much that was interesting and attractive in itself, and which ihe constant usage of our historians has made familiar...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... | |
 | 1876 - 604 páginas
...people.' ' At the risk of sacrificing much that was interesting ' — the italics are our own — ' and attractive in itself, and which the constant usage...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... | |
 | 1876 - 606 páginas
...people.' ' At the risk of sacrificing much that was interesting ' — the italics are our own — ' and attractive in itself, and which the constant usage...and nobles, the pomp of courts or the intrigues of favourites, and to dwell at length on the incidents of that constitutional, intellectual, aud social... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1877 - 920 páginas
...Conquests, but of the English People. At the risk of sacrificing much that was interesting and isractive in itself, and which the constant usage of our historians...and nobles, the pomp of courts, or the intrigues of favourites, and to dwell at length on the incidents of •hat constitutional, intellectual, and social... | |
 | J. G - 1878 - 408 páginas
...merely a record of royal personages, bloody battles, dark deeds, and political intrigues. The author has "preferred to pass lightly and briefly over the details...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... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - 1881 - 506 páginas
...people.' ' At the risk of sacrificing 'much that was interesting ' — the italics are our own — ' and attractive in itself, and which the constant usage...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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1883 - 610 páginas
...people from an evolutionary standpoint. He tells us in his preface to the Short History that he passes lightly and briefly over the details of foreign wars...and nobles, the pomp of courts, or the intrigues of favourites, and dwells at length on the incidents of the constitutional, intellectual, and social advance... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1884 - 838 páginas
...its title : it is a history, not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People. At the risk of sacrificing much that was interesting...and diplomacies, the personal adventures of kings snd nobles, the pomp of courts, or the intrigues of favorites, and to dwell at length on the incidents... | |
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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,... 
