 To the high qualifications of profound research, careful accuracy, great fairness and candour, with a constant reference to the genius and spirit of each successive age, common to the historians of Germany, Mr. Ranke adds the charm of a singularly lucid,...  Savonarola, Erasmus, and Other Essays - Page 145by Henry Hart Milman - 1870 - 500 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1836 - 600 pages
...exposition of the course of events, and of the motives of the influential agents — more of the life arid circumstance of history. In many parts the present...and agreeable style. We do not scruple to risk our judgment on this point, which it is sometimes thought presumptuous in any one but a native to pronounce... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 602 pages
...from the higher personal character of the pontiffs, who from this time, if darkened, to our judgment, by the varying shades of bigotry, were invariably...and agreeable style. We do not scruple to risk our judgment on this point, which it is sometimes thought presumptuous in any one but a native to pronounce... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 602 pages
...from the higher personal character of the pontiffs, who from this time, if darkened, to our judgment, by the varying shades of bigotry, were invariably...and agreeable style. We do not scruple to risk our judgment on this point, which it is sometimes thought presumptuous in any one but a native to pronounce;... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 600 pages
...which we are most rarely called upon to animadvert, especially in German writers. Brevity is an oftence against which our statutes are seldom put in force....and agreeable style. We do not scruple to risk our judgment on this point, which it is sometimes thought presumptuous in any one but a native to pronounce... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...outline for a larger work. But baving exhausted our critical fastidiousness on this point, we have Duly the more gratifying duty of expressing our high estimate...and agreeable style. We do not scruple to risk our judgment on this point, which it is sometimes thought presumptuous in any one but a native to pronounce... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Black people - 1840 - 328 pages
...Vienna, Venice, Rome, and Bologna. By LEOPOLD VON RANKE. Translated by SARAH AUSTIN, 3 vols. 8vo, 36s. " To the high qualifications of profound research, careful...of a singularly lucid, terse, and agreeable style." — Quarterly Review. " It is hardly necessary for us to say, that this is an excellent book, excellently... | |
 | John William Ward Earl of Dudley - Europe - 1841 - 446 pages
...Venice, Rome, and Bologna, By LEOPOLD VON RANKE. Translated by SARAH AUSTIN. 3 vols. Bvo, 36*. " To thc high qualifications of profound research, careful...successive age, common to the historians of Germany, Sir, Hanke adds the charm of a singularly lucid, terse, and agreeable style."— Quarterly Review.... | |
 | Henry George Hart - 1841 - 546 pages
...Vienna, Venice, Rome, and Bologna. By LEOPOLD VON RANKE. Translated by SARAH AUSTIN. 3 vols. 8vo, 36s. " To the high qualifications of profound research, careful...reference to the genius and spirit of each successive a^e, common to the historians of Germany, Mr. Itanke adds the charm of a singularly lucid, terse, and... | |
 | Henry Wheaton - Search, Right of - 1842 - 182 pages
...PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN. Translated from the German by Sarah Austin. In 2 volumes. " To the high qualifications of profound research, careful...of a singularly lucid, terse and agreeable style." — Quarterly Review. " It is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an excellent book, excellently... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 546 pages
...BY SARAH AUSTIN. In two volumes. "To the high qualifications of profound research, careful accuraey, great fairness and candour, with a constant reference...of a singularly lucid, terse and agreeable style." — Quarterly Revieto. "It is hardly necessary for us to say that this is an excellent book, excellently... | |
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