 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 sider
...different from Savile, Gale, and Nicolson. He calls him " vir uDiieqnaque doctissimus et Anglicanse Historiae peritissimus." The compilation of Polydore...of his predecessors ; and it was the first in which the summaries of personal character are introduced in the terse and energetic form adopted in the Roman... | |
 | Francis Tebbs Havergal - 1869 - 356 sider
...compilation of his History occupied the labour of twenty-eight years. He was the first of our historians who ventured to compare the facts and weigh the statements of his predecessors. His history is indispensable to fill a chasm of nearly seventy years in the dark period to which they... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner, James Bass Mullinger - 1881 - 456 sider
...advance, both in conception and style, upon preceding histories. ' It was,' says Sir Henry Ellis, ' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured...and it was the first in which summaries of personal 1 Fasciculi Zizanierum Magistri Johannis Wyclif cum Tritico. Edited by Rev. WW Shirley. RS 1858. 2... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1881 - 456 sider
...advance, both in conception and style, upon preceding histories. ' It was,' says Sir Henry Ellis, ' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured...and it was the first in which summaries of personal 1 Fasciculi Ziznniorum Magistri Johannis Wyclif cum Tritico. Edited by Rev. WW Shirley. RS 1858. -... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner, James Bass Mullinger - 1881 - 454 sider
...advance, both in conception and style, upon preceding histories. ' It was,' says Sir Henry Ellis, ' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured...and it was the first in which summaries of personal 1 Fasciculi Zizaniorum MagistriJohannis Wyclif cum Tritico. Edited by Rev. WW Shirley. RS 1858. 2 Political... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1881 - 464 sider
...advance, both in conception and style, upon preceding histories. ' It was,' says Sir Henry Ellis,' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured...and it was the first in which summaries of personal 1 Fasciculi Zizaniorum Magistri Johannis Wyclif cum Tritico. Edited by Rev. WW Shirley. RS 1858. !... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner, James Bass Mullinger - 1881 - 490 sider
...advance, both in conception and style, upon preceding histories. ' It was,' says Sir Henry Ellis,' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured...and it was the first in which summaries of personal 1 Fasciculi Zizaniomm Magistri Jo/iannis IVyclif cum Tritico. Edited by Rev. WW Shirley. ./?. .?. 1858.... | |
 | George Gregory Smith - 1890 - 248 sider
...his literary and historical studies. ' This was the first of our histories,' says Sir Henry Ellis, ' in which the writer ventured to compare the facts...weigh the statements of his predecessors ' ; and it has a full contemporary value because its author knew many of the leading actors.* It is of chief importance... | |
 | Charles Gross - 1900 - 652 sider
...prior to the Norman conquest, ed. Henry Ellis. Camden Soc. London, 1846. Ellis says that this is ' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured...facts and weigh the statements of his predecessors.' Gairdner calls it ' the first fruit of the revival of letters in the field of English history.' Vergil's... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner, James Bass Mullinger - 1903 - 504 sider
...advance, both in conception and style, upon preceding histories. ' It was,' says Sir Henry Ellis,' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured...predecessors; and it was the first in which summaries of persona) * Political Poems and Songs relating to English History, cvfpo'd during the Period from the... | |
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It was,' says Sir Henry Ellis, ' the first of our histories in which the writer ventured to compare the facts and weigh the statements of his predecessors ; and it was the first in which summaries of personal 1 Fasciculi Zizanierum Magistri Johannis Wyclif... 
