 | Francis James Bennett - 1907 - 238 pages
...RUSSELL LARKBY. DR. JOHNSON is reported to have said " all that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us." Since the days of Dr. Johnson, however, science has made progress, and new lights have arisen, until... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 pages
...verse."* We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told * This experiment which Madame Dacier made in vain, has since been tried in our own language, by the... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon, Alison Hingston Quiggin - 1910 - 252 pages
...summed up contemporary opinion in his statement : ' ' All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what old writers have told us." But it was not long before it was recognised that there was other evidence... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1911 - 642 pages
...eighteenth century, Boswell reports Johnson as saying, ' All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us.' But there is no need to travel back a century or more to seek the high-water mark reached by students... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pages
...: " We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON : ' All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know...have we upon it,' " * the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream — such as Whitaker's Manchester, of... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 pages
...: " We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON : ' All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know...have told us ; yet what large books have we upon it,' " I the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old writers, is all a dream —... | |
 | Iron and Steel Institute - 1923 - 332 pages
...Indeed, Dr. Johnson is reported 2 to have said that " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us." Partly as the result of religious conservatism, which limited the age of the earth to a mere 6000 years... | |
 | John Newton Friend - 1926 - 242 pages
...Indeed, Dr. Johnson is reported* to have said that " All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us." Whilst certain branches of study have been pursued by man for countless years, as witness Astronomy,... | |
 | Glyn Daniel - 1976 - 36 pages
...and would not and should not exist. Dr Johnson said ' All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what old writers have told us.' The revolution in thought that produced archaeology in the period 1809-1959... | |
 | Bruce G. Trigger - 1989 - 518 pages
...against a future for their research even more trenchantly: 'All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what old writers have told us' (ibid. 35). Even J. Dobrovsky, 'the father of Czech prehistory', who in 1786... | |
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All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the old writers have told us ; yet what large books have we upon it, the whole of which, excepting such parts as are taken from those old... 
