Historical Research: An Outline of Theory and PracticeP. Smith, 1911 - 350 páginas |
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... peculiarities of the artists , before pronouncing judgment . The products of man's hand have been imitated for purposes of deception in innumerable cases . Every branch of archæology has its peculiar trouble , for human curiosity is so ...
... peculiarities of the artists , before pronouncing judgment . The products of man's hand have been imitated for purposes of deception in innumerable cases . Every branch of archæology has its peculiar trouble , for human curiosity is so ...
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... peculiarities of any given time . Included in this field of study is the classification of the materials upon which writings were made . For example , papyrus was used for documents well into the Merovingian period , hence a deed ...
... peculiarities of any given time . Included in this field of study is the classification of the materials upon which writings were made . For example , papyrus was used for documents well into the Merovingian period , hence a deed ...
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... peculiarities of individual writers have in many cases been identified and these have served to prove and explain unmarked manu- scripts , particularly documents . Books were usu- ally written in a studied hand which offered less oppor ...
... peculiarities of individual writers have in many cases been identified and these have served to prove and explain unmarked manu- scripts , particularly documents . Books were usu- ally written in a studied hand which offered less oppor ...
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... peculiarities in single letters , but the variety of practice on the part of the same writer at different times and at different stages in his own career do not generally warrant conclusions so exact . Fashions also overlap and change ...
... peculiarities in single letters , but the variety of practice on the part of the same writer at different times and at different stages in his own career do not generally warrant conclusions so exact . Fashions also overlap and change ...
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... peculiarities differing from the others . Italy , Spain , the Franks and the Anglo - Saxons , each developed customs which need to be studied . At one time . the Carolingian script became so corrupt that it was forbidden by law . The ...
... peculiarities differing from the others . Italy , Spain , the Franks and the Anglo - Saxons , each developed customs which need to be studied . At one time . the Carolingian script became so corrupt that it was forbidden by law . The ...
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Página 286 - 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 - ... to the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man. 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 171 - 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 172 - 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 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 115 - And the same year came three hundred and fifty ships to the mouth of the Thames, and the crews landed, and took Canterbury and London by storm, and put to flight Berhtwulf, King of the Mercians, with his army...
Página 117 - Oak-plain, and there, after a fierce 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.
Página 2 - For myself, my duty is to report all that is said, but I am not obliged to believe it all alike — a remark which may be understood to apply to my whole History.
Página 115 - Ethelwulf, king of the West-Saxons, and his son Ethelbald, 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 defeated, either before or since, in any country, in one day; and the Christians gained an honourable victory, and were triumphant over their graves.