 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...limitations of his ideal are illustrated by his fondness for Sir Walter Raleigh's remark, that " whosoever shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth." Perhaps it is right in the interests of truth to remember that the man in whose praise so much can... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Great Britain - 1837 - 398 pages
...that whoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may, perchance, strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide...that hath led her followers and servants into greater difficulties : he that goes after her too far off, loseth her sight, and loseth himself, and he that... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1836 - 672 pages
...ftrcben foil, ©ir Sat; ter fagt: Whosoever in modern history shall follow truth toe near the Inn-Is it may haply strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that has led her followers into greater miseries. He that goes after her too far off loseth her sight aud... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 404 pages
...that whoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may, perchance, strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide...that, hath led her followers and servants into greater difficulties : he that goes after her too far off, loseth her sight, and loseth himself, and he that... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...to draw water as near the wellhead as another. To this I answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it...too far off loseth her sight and loseth himself; and that walks after her at a middle distance, I know not whether I should call that kind of course temper... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide...too far off loseth her sight and loseth himself; and that walks after her at a middle distance, I know not whether I should call that kind of course temper... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 360 pages
...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...followers and servants into greater miseries. He that goes * Hoskyns wrote many poems. A manuscript volume of his poems, fairly written we may presume for the... | |
 | 1845 - 622 pages
...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...teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her fol' lowers and servants into greater miseries. ' So may the loss we have sustained be the better accounted... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 658 pages
...this I answer, that whosoever, in writing a modern ' history, shall follow Truth too near the heeh, it may haply strike out * his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her fol' lowers and servants into greater miseries.' So may the loss we have sustained be the better accounted... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1845 - 606 pages
...draw water as near the well-head at ' another. To this I answer, that whosoever, in writing a modern ' history, shall follow Truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out ' hit teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her fol' lowers"and servants into greater... | |
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I answer, that whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. 
