 Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak from any chance information, nor according to any notion of my own; I have described nothing but what I either saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry.  The History of Ancient Civilization: A Handbook - Page 168edited by - 1889 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1881 - 632 pages
...pretended to know. So much, indeed, he expressly says in respect to the actual history of the war : ' Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry ' (i. 2'2). Nevertheless, he could not altogether work himself clear of the sensational. Beyond question... | |
 | Christianity - 1881 - 564 pages
...pretended to know. So mucb, indeed, he expressly says in respect to the actual history of the war: ' Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...either saw myself, or learned from others of whom I n:ade the most careful and particular inquiry ' (i. 2'2). Nevertheless, he could not altogether work... | |
 | Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1881 - 588 pages
...the war : ' Of the events of the war I have not ventured to * ' Hist. Gr. Class. Lit.' ii. p. 131. speak from any chance information, nor according to...whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry ' (i. 22). Nevertheless, he could not altogether work himself clear of the sensational. Beyond question... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1881 - 742 pages
...nearly as I could, to give the general about purport of what was actually said. Of the events of the^cve war I have not ventured to speak from any chance information, nor according to any notion of my own ; I have j described nothing but what I either saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful... | |
 | Thucydides - Greece - 1883 - 732 pages
...same time I endeavored, as nearly as I could, to give the general purport of what was actually said. Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...notion of my own ; I have described nothing but what I cither saw myself, or learned from others of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. The... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 344 pages
...same time I endeavored, as nearly as I could, to give the general purport of what was actually said. Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. The task was a laborious one, because eye-witnesses of the same occurrences gave different accounts... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Greek literature - 1890 - 938 pages
...history. Thus, in the same introductory pages from which quotations have been already made, he says : "Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...but what I either saw myself, or learned from others from whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. The task was a laborious one, because eye-witnesses... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1892 - 334 pages
...same time I endeavored, as nearly as I could, to give the general purport of what was actually said. Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. The task was a laborious one, because eye-witnesses of the same occurrences gave different accounts... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1892 - 940 pages
...historians, and no better account of his methods can be given than is contained in his own words : 'Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...either saw myself or learned from others, of whom I mode the most careful and particular inquiry. The task was a laborious one, because eye-witnesses of... | |
 | Frank Byron Jevons - Greek literature - 1892 - 540 pages
...susceptible of. It will help to the understanding of this and other points to read his own words : — "Of the events of the war I have not ventured to speak...described nothing but what I either saw myself or learnt from others, of whom I made the most careful and particular inquiry. Tbe task was a laborious... | |
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