 If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage, and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, the world would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking,...  Parliamentary Papers - Page 45by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 604 pages
...lamps and flaunting lanterns, displayed their wares. THE COMMON MODE OF WRITING ENGLISH HISTORY. ' If the history of England be ever written by one who...figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable to an... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 606 pages
...glaring lamps and flaunting lanterns, displayed their wares. THE COMMON MODE OF WRITING ENGLISH HISTORY. If the history of England be ever written by one who...figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable to an... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - Chartism - 1845 - 996 pages
...Earl of Marney, whom the whigs would not make a duke. What was his chance of success from Mr. Pitt? If the history of England be ever written by one who...principal characters never appear, and all who figure are BO misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - Chartism - 1845 - 454 pages
...Earl of Marney, whom thewhigs would not make a duke. What was his chance of success from Mr. Pitt? If the history of England be ever written by one who...concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, 15 and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - Chartism - 1845 - 496 pages
...Earl of Marney, whom the whigs would not make a duke. What was his chance of success from Mr. Pitt ? If the history of England be ever written by one who...world would be more astonished than when reading the Bx>man annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the... | |
 | 1845 - 622 pages
...glaring lamps and flaunting lanterns, displayed their wares. THE 'COMMON MODE OF WRITING ENGLISH HISTORY. If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the course, and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, the world would be more astonished... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...wrong. In " Sybil," he thus gives his general opinion of the way in which it has been written : — " All the great events have been distorted, most of...figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented that the result is a complete mystification." Assuredly if this, or anything like it, was the state of things,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 pages
...turned upside down that, were an informed and courageous man to rectify prevailing misconceptions, " the world would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebühr." Some of tho principal characters have actually been loft out. " Not one man in a thousand,"... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 628 pages
...was his chance of success from Mr. Pitt ? If the history of England be ever written by one who Las the knowledge and the courage, and both qualities...figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable to an... | |
 | American periodicals - 1880 - 820 pages
...entirely wrong. In " Sybil," he thus gives his general opinion of the way in which it has been written : " All the great events have been distorted, most of...figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented that the result is a complete mystification." Assuredly if this, or anything like it, was the state of things,... | |
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