| Andrew Lang - 1908 - 420 страници
...Miracle-working she again and again, in freedom and in prison, disclaimed. If she occasionexhibited such faculties as "second sight" and telepathy, Thackeray,...mournful truth is that the historian has a much better 1 France, vol. ip Ixxx. chance of being read if he gives free play to his fancy than if he is strictly... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 620 страници
...historical problems and may fitly close this brief summary of his work as a professional historian. ' To reject abundance of sworn evidence because it conflicts...future day ; at present she is not omniscient.' ('The Maid,' p. 14.) RS RAIT. n. THANKS to Andrew Lang's indefatigable industry, his inveterate taste for... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 626 страници
...sworn evidence because it conflicts with a critic's personal idea of what is probable or }x>ssible is not the method of history, and will not be adopted...future day; at present she is not omniscient.' ('The Maid,' p. 14.) RS RAIT. n. THANKS to Andrew Lang's indefatigable industry, his inveterate taste for... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 632 страници
...sworn evidence because it conflicts with a critic's personal idea of what is probable or possible if not the method of history, and will not be adopted...future day; at present she is not omniscient.' (' The Maid,' p. 14.) RS RAIT. IL THANKS to Andrew Lang's indefatigable industry, hia inveterate taste for... | |
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