Historical Research: An Outline of Theory and PracticeH. Holt, 1911 - 350 páginas |
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... remains a certain interest in observing what the early writer thought might have been said , or what the combi- nation of circumstances required . The list of written sources subject to falsification is by no means exhausted in this ...
... remains a certain interest in observing what the early writer thought might have been said , or what the combi- nation of circumstances required . The list of written sources subject to falsification is by no means exhausted in this ...
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... remains of saints were in greater demand than the middle ages could supply and the faithful were some- times deceived with the arms or legs of less holy men or of animals . The accounts of such attempts at deception would fill volumes ...
... remains of saints were in greater demand than the middle ages could supply and the faithful were some- times deceived with the arms or legs of less holy men or of animals . The accounts of such attempts at deception would fill volumes ...
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... remains of men were found and numerous bones of children , even so small as the unborn . More visions were now required and the pilgrim crowd was augmented with relatives , parents , fiancés , and young sisters of the virgins ...
... remains of men were found and numerous bones of children , even so small as the unborn . More visions were now required and the pilgrim crowd was augmented with relatives , parents , fiancés , and young sisters of the virgins ...
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... remains yet the duty to draw the inferences which have not necessarily been formally written down . An analysis of this process will show that this consists essentially of two parts . There is first a weighing of the evi- dence offered ...
... remains yet the duty to draw the inferences which have not necessarily been formally written down . An analysis of this process will show that this consists essentially of two parts . There is first a weighing of the evi- dence offered ...
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... remains on the book a long time after it has ceased to be observed . An occasional appeal to it shows how far from public custom its provisions have become . It is still forbidden in Maryland to utter profanity in public places , but no ...
... remains on the book a long time after it has ceased to be observed . An occasional appeal to it shows how far from public custom its provisions have become . It is still forbidden in Maryland to utter profanity in public places , but no ...
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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.