 We have finished the twentieth, and last book of Guicciardini's History, the most authentic, I believe (may I add, I fear) that ever was composed. I believe it, because the historian was an actor in his terrible drama, and personally knew the principal...  The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth - Página 242por William Roscoe - 1806Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 566 páginas
...1789. We have finished the twentieth, and last book of Guicciardini's History, the most authentic, I believe (may I add, I fear) that ever was composed....performers in it ; and I fear it, because it exhibits the woeful picture of society in the 15th and 16th centuries. If you can spare Reid, we are now ready for... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1806 - 636 páginas
...twentieth, and Jast book of Guicciardini's History, the most authentic, I believe (may I add, Ifear) that ever was composed. I believe it, because the historian was an actor in liis terrible drama, and personally knew the principal performers in it ; and I fear it, because it... | |
 | John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 668 páginas
...1789. We have finished the twentieth, and last book of Guicciardini's History, the most authentic, I believe (may I add, I fear?) that ever was composed...knew the principal performers in it; and I fear it, * The reader will thank me for giving him an opportunity of perusing tlie passage, at the close of... | |
 | 1814 - 510 páginas
...of Europe, and is so to this day. Of this history sir William Jones says, " It is the most authentic I believe (may I add, I fear) that ever was composed....performers in it; and I fear it, because it exhibits the woeful picture of society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." Guicciardini has, however, some... | |
 | 1814 - 510 páginas
...of Europe, and is so to this day. Of this history sir William Jones says, " It is the most authentic I believe (may I add, I fear) that ever was composed....principal performers in it; and I fear it, because it exhihits the woeful picture of society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." Guicciardini has,... | |
 | 1821 - 360 páginas
...Esq. 17B9WE have finished the twentieth and last book of Guicciardini's History, the most authentic, I believe (may I add, I fear ?) that ever was composed....the historian was an actor in his terrible drama, aud personally knew the principal performers in it ; and I fear it, because it exhibits the woful picture... | |
 | William Strong (bookseller.) - 1828 - 530 páginas
...(may I add, 1 fear) that ever was coinpnsed. I believe it, because the historian was an actor in Ihib terrible drama, and personally knew the principal performers in it; and I fear it, he cau^e ¡t exhibits the woeful picture of society in the XV. and XVI. centuries." Lord Bolingbroke... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1846 - 654 páginas
...; the rno*t authentic 1 believe (may 1 add, I fear) that ever was composed. I believe it, b-.-cause the historian was an actor in his terrible drama,...fear it, because it exhibits the woful picture of ~.«.-iety in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." — Sir W. Jones, in Lord Teigumouth's Life of... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1853 - 470 páginas
...— " We have finished the twentieth and last book of Guicciardini's History, the most authentic one, I believe, (may I add, I fear ?) that ever was composed....believe it, because the historian was an actor in this terrible drama, and I fear, because it exhibits the woful picture of society in the fifteenth... | |
 | Henry Schütz Wilson - 1884 - 352 páginas
...says,—' We have finished the twentieth and last book of Gu|cciardini's history; the most authentic, I believe (may I add, I fear ?) that ever was composed....performers in it; and I fear it, because it exhibits the woeful picture of society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.' In fact, the testimony of the... | |
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