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... story handed down by tradition and only accepted by the ignorant as history . It is a story like that of King Alfred and the cakes , a story which , the pundits tell us , is devoid of any historical foundation . The older sense has not ...
... story handed down by tradition and only accepted by the ignorant as history . It is a story like that of King Alfred and the cakes , a story which , the pundits tell us , is devoid of any historical foundation . The older sense has not ...
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... stories escaped publication ; and if they only appear in book form many generations later , their basic truth need not be affected . I mentioned earlier the story of King Alfred and the cakes , which every reputable historian will tell ...
... stories escaped publication ; and if they only appear in book form many generations later , their basic truth need not be affected . I mentioned earlier the story of King Alfred and the cakes , which every reputable historian will tell ...
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... story should necessarily be dis- missed as untrue because there are similar stories coming from other parts of the world . We are told nowadays that William Tell never existed , or , at best , that there may have been a man called Tell ...
... story should necessarily be dis- missed as untrue because there are similar stories coming from other parts of the world . We are told nowadays that William Tell never existed , or , at best , that there may have been a man called Tell ...
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The Wedmore Memorial Lecture 1975 | 24 |
Don Carlos Coloma Memorial Lecture 1974 | 47 |
The Giff Edmonds Memorial Lecture 1975 | 57 |
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