 I know that it will be said by many, that I might have been more pleasing to the reader, if I had written the story of mine own times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another.  Southeast Asia: An Introductory HistoryMilton E. Osborne 著 - 2004 - 349 頁有限的預覽 - 關於此書
 | John Buchan - 1917 - 340 頁
...of his own times, which (he says) might have been more pleasing to the reader, on the ground that " whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow...near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." To Napoleon, on the contrary, it seemed that contemporary history was the surest. " One can say what... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - 1915 - 578 頁
...English affairs than of the universal." " To this I answer," says Raleigh, " that whosoever in writing modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." 80 With his final conclusion the average reader of the seventeenth century, eager for some connected... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1920 - 460 頁
...times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another. To this I answer, that whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth." This passage comes toward the end of the long preface which most elaborately... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1923 - 352 頁
...not of his own times, but of the World. He alleges prudence as the reason of his choice, for that ' whosoever in writing a Modern History shall follow...near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth '. But it is easy to be seen that England was too small a stage for the exhibition of all those varieties... | |
 | 1909 - 498 頁
...times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another. To this I answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history, shall follow...truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his " " With delicate pipe." teeth. There is no mistress or guide, that hath led her followers and servants... | |
 | James H. Forse - 1993 - 314 頁
...during his confinement in the Tower (1603-16), noted that it was safer to write ancient history because "whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow...near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." 36 Certainly that would seem to explain the theatre's proliferation of Greco-Roman tragedies, and other... | |
 | James H. Forse - 1993 - 314 頁
...during his confinement in the Tower (1603-16), noted that it was safer to write ancient history because "whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow...truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth."36 Certainly that would seem to explain the theatre's proliferation of Greco-Roman tragedies,... | |
 | Leon Harold Craig - 1996 - 482 頁
...times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another. To this I answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels it may happily strike out his teeth." Still, he managed to suggest a contemporary pertinence to his history... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1997 - 294 頁
...While writing, at Prince Henry's command, his History of the World in the Tower, Raleigh observed that "whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow...near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth" ( Works, II, Ixiii). The players knew the force of this remark only too well from their recent experience... | |
 | Charles Robert McCann - 1998 - 646 頁
...may be mythical, but its symbolical value is great. At any rate we have this phrase from Sir Walter: "Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow...near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." A Very Angry Book Mr. Keynes, an English economist, and a financial adviser to the British mission... | |
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