 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - Chartism - 1845 - 996 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important...principal characters never appear, and all who figure are BO misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - Chartism - 1845 - 454 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted , most of the important...concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, 15 and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1856 - 464 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important...figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the-result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable for an... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
..." Sybil," he thus gives his general opinion of the way in which it has been written : — " All the great events have been distorted, most of the important...misrepresented that the result is a complete mystification." Assuredly if this, or anything like it, was the state of things, Mr. Disraeli had not discovered it... | |
 | American periodicals - 1880 - 820 pages
...In " Sybil," he thus gives his general opinion of the way in which it has been written : " All the great events have been distorted, most of the important...misrepresented that the result is a complete mystification." Assuredly if this, or anything like it, was the state of things, Mr. Disraeli had not discovered it... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 408 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important...Gaudentio di Lucca or the adventures of Peter Wilkins. English Nation.—I think there is no mistake so grave on the part of a Minister as to undervalue public... | |
 | Frederick Carroll Brewster - 1890 - 408 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important...Gaudentio di Lucca or the ' Adventures of Peter Wilkins.'" " Not one man in a thousand, for instance, has ever heard of Major Wildman : yet he was the soul of... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1900 - 1724 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important...reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia of More, the pcyes of Gandentio di Lucca or the adventures of Peter Wilkins. The influence of races in our early... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - Chartism - 1905 - 670 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important...pages of Gaudentio di Lucca or the adventures of Peter Wilklns. The influence of races in our early ages, of the church in our middle, and of parties in pur... | |
 | W. E. Gladstone - Biography & Autobiography - 1969 - 662 pages
...would be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important...and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification.5 To start with, Morley's method of composition can only be deseribed as slap-dash. He... | |
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Niebuhr. Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification... 
