 I know that it will be said by many, that I might have been more pleasing to the reader, if I had written the story of mine own times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another.  Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography - Page 255by William Stebbing - 1891 - 413 lehteFull view - About this book
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...Truth still is one ; truth is divinely bright, No cloudy doubts obscure her native light. ROSCOMMOS: WHOSOEVER, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. SIR WALTER RALEGH. • i ' . ' CERTAINLY it is heaven upon earth, to... | |
 | 1902 - 742 lehte
...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... | |
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...times, having been permitted 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 may happily strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 398 lehte
...having been permitted to draw water as near the well head as another. To this I answer, 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... | |
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...having been permitted to draw water as near the well head as another. To this I answer, 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 lehte
...times, having been permitted to draw water as near the wellhead as another. To this I answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow...near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 476 lehte
...times, having been permitted 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 may happily strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 360 lehte
...times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as another. To this I answer, that whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow...near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants into greater miseries. He that... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 430 lehte
...times, having been pennitted 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 may happily strike out his teeth. There is no mistress or guide that hath led her followers and servants... | |
 | 1845 - 622 lehte
...times, having been permitted to draw water as near the well-head as 'another. To this I answer, that whosoever, in writing a modern ' history, shall follow...near the heels, 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... | |
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