 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 528 Seiten
...brother-inlaw of the king, and they were immediately executed. David Hume very judiciously observes, that there is no part of English history since the Conquest,...uncertain, so little authentic or consistent as that period of the wars between the two Roses: historians differ about many material circumstances ; some... | |
 | Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 524 Seiten
...brother-inlaw of the king, and they were immediately executed. David Hume very judiciously observes, that there is no part of English history since the Conquest,...obscure, so uncertain, so little authentic or consistent us that period of the wars between the two Roses: historians differ about many material circumstances;... | |
 | David Hume - 1818 - 488 Seiten
...his partiality towards them : And they were immediately executed by orders from Sir John Corners. c THERE is no part of English history since the Conquest...agree, are incredible and contradicted by records f : and it is remarkable, that this profound darkness falls upon us just on the eve of the restoration... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1826 - 318 Seiten
...the county for which the members were to be returned. CHAPTER XII. EDWARD THE FOURTH. 1461 — 1483. THERE is no part of English history, since the conquest, so obscure, and inconsistent, as that of the wars between the two houses of York and Lancaster. Some events of... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 386 Seiten
...his partiality towards them : and they were immediately executed by orders from sir John Corners34. There is no part of English history since the Conquest...almost all agree, are incredible and contradicted by records33 ; and it is remarkable, that this profound 34 Fabian, fol. 217. M We shall give an instance... | |
 | 1842 - 528 Seiten
...of manners and events, are scanty and doubtful. " There is," observes the writer just referred to, " no part of English history since the Conquest so obscure,...consistent, as that of the wars between the two Roses. All we can distinguish with certainty through the deep cloud which covers that period, is a scene of... | |
 | John Jefferson - 1843 - 138 Seiten
...Hume, the historian, on the character of these times, deserves to be quoted in this place. He says, " There is no part of English history since the conquest so obscure and so little authentic as that of these Wars of the Roses. All we can distinguish with certainty through... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 688 Seiten
...during his exile were vacated and destroyed. " There is no part of English history since the Conquest so uncertain, so little authentic or consistent, as that of the wars between t1 e two Roses ; and it is remarkable that this profound darkr «3 falls upon us just on the eve of... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 704 Seiten
...vacated and destroyed. " There is no part of English history since the Conquest so uncertain, so,little authentic or consistent, as that of the wars between the two Roses ; and it is remarkable that this profound darkness falls upon us just on the eve of the restoration... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1848 - 702 Seiten
...during his exile were vacated and destroyed. " There is no part of English history since the Conquest so uncertain, so little authentic or consistent, as that of the wars between the two Roses ; and it is remarkable that this profound darkness falls upon us just on the eve of the restoration... | |
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THERE is no part of English history since the Conquest so obscure, so uncertain, so little authentic, or consistent, as that of the wars between the two Roses... 
