 | George E. Marcus - 1992 - 426 sivua
...Pollock and F. W. Maitland who wrote, "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web" (Pollock and Maitland, 1898, vol. 1:1). Apparent boundaries, then, such as those that define nations,... | |
 | Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, A. J. Woodman - 1997 - 144 sivua
...medievalist FW Maitland wrote that 'Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web'.46 Tacitus in his Histories and Annals was obliged to make such tears, but his repeated manipulation... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 sivua
...British legal historian and jurist Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence...Greek words in it: words such as bishop, priest and deacon. If we would search out the origins of Roman law, we must study Babylon: this at least was the... | |
 | 2000 - 326 sivua
...their great History of English Law: "Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web. . . . The web must be rent; but, as we rend it, we may watch the whence and whither of the severed and ravelling... | |
 | Beverley C. Southgate - 2001 - 224 sivua
...maintained, and in historiographical terms, 'such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web'.17 That quotation from the Victorian historian Frederic Maitland refers in part to the geographical... | |
 | Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 sivua
...University Press; 1991), pp. 33, 34-5. 36 'Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web.' FW Maitland, quoted in B. Southgate, History: What and Why? Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Perspectives... | |
 | Charles E. Curran - 2003 - 352 sivua
...in chronological order. DOCUMENTATION "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web."' This is especially true to anyone who attempts to trace the development of a particular doctrine. Therefore.... | |
 | Michael Les Benedict, John F. Winkler - 2004 - 959 sivua
...to know where to begin such a study. "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence...Greek words in it: words such as bishop, priest, and deacon. If we would search out the origins of the Roman law we must study Babylon."3 They drew the... | |
 | Constantin Fasolt - 2004 - 349 sivua
...said what everyone who looks can see: "Such is the unity of all history that anyone who endeavors to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web. ... A statute of limitations must be set; but it must be arbitrary. The web must be rent."5 Just so.... | |
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Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web. 
