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... historian took a mali- cious glee in demolishing the superstitions and frauds on which Christianity was founded ... historians , essay writers , men of letters , and men of fashion shared a common Anglo- French culture . He delineates ...
... historian took a mali- cious glee in demolishing the superstitions and frauds on which Christianity was founded ... historians , essay writers , men of letters , and men of fashion shared a common Anglo- French culture . He delineates ...
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... historian stood at the head of the literary world , when a Gibbon or a Macaulay was hailed as the reigning lord of ... historians are themselves to blame for this . There was a stern Reformation in the last century , when the historians ...
... historian stood at the head of the literary world , when a Gibbon or a Macaulay was hailed as the reigning lord of ... historians are themselves to blame for this . There was a stern Reformation in the last century , when the historians ...
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... historian Tschudi . So maybe it was some later historian who had read Saxo Grammaticus . But who then invented William Tell himself ? I believe that he must have existed , whether or not he shot the arrow ; and I also maintain that the ...
... historian Tschudi . So maybe it was some later historian who had read Saxo Grammaticus . But who then invented William Tell himself ? I believe that he must have existed , whether or not he shot the arrow ; and I also maintain that the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
The Wedmore Memorial Lecture 1975 | 24 |
Don Carlos Coloma Memorial Lecture 1974 | 47 |
Copyright | |
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