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Those which bear upon Virginia are The Virginia Company , Virginia Carolorum , Virginia Vestusta , and Virginia and Virginiola . Many tracts are cited in the foot-notes. William Hand Browne's books show great familiarity with the story of Maryland and its founders, but his treatment of the subject is marked by strong bias and partisanship in favor of Lord Baltimore and his government.
"Jenks stretched himself and took a morphine tablet. "'You've got to back up against th' 'dobe, old man, says he to me. 'Three weeks, I believe, you get. Haven't got a chew of fine-cut on you, have you? "'Translate that again, with foot-notes and a glossary, says I. 'I don't know whether I'm discharged, condemned, or handed over to the Gerry Society. "'Oh, says Jenks, 'don't you understand?
Through years of historical study he has learnt carefully to sort out strong from weak evidence and to base his judgements only on such evidence as may be regarded as thoroughly reliable. A cursory glance through the pages of Danton and a quite casual perusal of a few of the foot-notes in that book will leave the reader with no doubts on this point.
He surveyed them patronizingly, after he had placed the books on the table. "Gents, once when I was considerably younger and consequently reckoned that I knew about all there was to know, not only all the main points, but all the foot-notes, I didn't allow anybody else to know anything. And I used to lose more or less money betting that this and that wasn't so.
That I may not be thought capable of abusing the reader's confidence by inventing conversations, speeches, or letters, I would take this opportunity of stating although I have repeated the remark in the foot-notes that no personage in these pages is made to write or speak any words save those which, on the best historical evidence, he is known to have written or spoken.
The ancient historians never quoted their sources of knowledge, but were valued for their richness of thoughts and artistic beauty of style. The ages in which they flourished attached no value to pedantic displays of learning paraded in foot-notes.
He was a Harrow boy named Raphael Leon, a scion of a wealthy family. The boy had manifested a strange premature interest in Jewish literature and had often seen Gabriel Hamburg's name in learned foot-notes, and, discovering that he was in England, had just written to him.
This learned divine he has written many such works, as the advertisements inform us fills up the greater part of his pages with foot-notes from hundreds of authorities, arguments and counter-arguments over supernatural subtleties.
The publications of the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society contain much original matter and many interesting articles upon the early history of both Plymouth and Massachusetts. Special tracts and documents are referred to in the foot-notes to chaps, ix.-xiii., above.
The many Scripture quotations, all naturally from the Latin Vulgate, and most of them freely quoted from memory, and sometimes "targumed" and woven into the texture of the treatise, are rendered by us, unless the sense should thereby be affected, in the words of the Authorised Version. Important or interesting variations are indicated in the foot-notes.
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