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" Washington ; he look on his work as being any the less trustworthy on account of its poetical shape. But of course, whenever he departs from contemporary authority, and merely sets down floating traditions nearly a hundred years after the latest events... "
The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of Eadward the ... - Page 106
by Edward Augustus Freeman - 1873
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The reign of Eadward the Confessor. 2d ed., rev. 1870

Edward Augustus Freeman - 1870 - 802 pages
...Timole6n, Alfred, and Washington ; he cannot even claim the more mingled fame of Alexander, Charles, trustworthy on account of its poetical shape. But...his statements need to be very carefully weighed. 1 have used M. Pluquet's edition (Rouen, 1827) and the English Translation of part of the work by Mr....
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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its ..., Volume 2

Edward A. Freeman - 1877 - 784 pages
...William of Normandy has no claim to a share in the pure glory of Timoleon, Alfred, and Washington ; he look on his work as being any the less trustworthy...notes are of great value. The other riming chronicler, Beno1t de Sainte-More, a younger contemporary of Wace, isofa far more romantic turn, and is therefore...
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The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of Eadward the ...

Edward Augustus Freeman - 1877 - 758 pages
...William of Normandy has no claim to a share in the pure glory of Timoleon, Alfred, and Washington ; he look on his work as being any the less trustworthy...notes are of great value. The other riming chronicler, Benolt de Sainte-More, a younger contemporary of Wace, is of a far more romantic turn, and is therefore...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 177

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1893 - 610 pages
...anachronisms, or his chronology. For ' of course,' in the Professor's own words, ' whenever he [Wace] departs from contemporary authority, and merely sets...his statements need to be very carefully weighed.' But, as a •matter of fact, Wace is not consistent. He can himself have formed no clear idea of the...
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Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIt Centuries

John Horace Round - 1895 - 614 pages
...the original authorities he confused, or to follow him when, in Mr. Freeman's words, he actually " departs from contemporary authority, and merely sets...hundred years after the latest events which he records " — betrays the absence of a critical faculty, or the consciousness of a hopeless cause. NOTE ON...
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Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and ..., Volume 42

Sussex Archaeological Society - 1899 - 364 pages
...remain that here, to quote a phrase of Mr. Freeman's, the bard " departs from contemporary anthority and merely sets down floating traditions nearly a...hundred years after the latest events which he records." That he made mistakes in doing so is admitted and is not wonderful. But I go further still. I have...
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Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries

John Horace Round - 1909 - 614 pages
...to the original authorities he confused, or to follow him when, in Mr. Freeman's words, he actually "departs from contemporary authority, and merely sets...nearly a hundred years after the latest events which he records"—betrays the absence of a critical faculty, or the consciousness of a hopeless cause. NOTE...
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