 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1896 - 420 ページ
...not have been in it, nor even in its neighborhood. They had got so used to telling the story for the wonderment of village listeners as grandfathers' tales,...some of it discreditable, as misleading and false." Such is the testimony of a very competent historical critic as to old soldiers' accounts of battles... | |
 | Milo Milton Quaife, Joseph Schafer, Edward Porter Alexander - 1923 - 556 ページ
...not have been in it, nor even in its neighborhood. They had got so used to telling the story for the wonderment of village listeners, as grandfathers'...they had seen and done and what they had read, heard, and dreamed.' " At the opposite side of the continent, nearly a century subsequent to Bunker Hill battle,... | |
 | Joseph Schafer - 1923 - 142 ページ
...not have been in it, nor even in its neighborhood. They had got so used to telling the story for the wonderment of village listeners, as grandfathers'...they had seen and done and what they had read, heard, and dreamed.' " At the opposite side of the continent, nearly a century subsequent to Bunker Hill battle,... | |
 | Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1927 - 616 ページ
...not have been in it, nor even in its neighborhood. They had got so used to telling the story for the wonderment of village listeners as grandfathers' tales...history, and some of it discreditable, as misleading and false.1 The Committee concluded that these fulminations of the aged men whom Daniel Webster so glowingly... | |
 | Peter Novick - 2000 - 387 ページ
...used to telling the story for the wonderment of village listeners as grandfathers' tales and . . . representatives of 'the spirit of '76' that they did...and done and what they had read, heard, or dreamed." (Committee report quoted in Richard M. Ketchum, "Memory as History," American Heritage42 [November... | |
 | Milo Milton Quaife, Joseph Schafer, Edward Porter Alexander - 1923 - 548 ページ
...not have been in it, nor even in its neighborhood. They had got so used to telling the story for the wonderment of village listeners, as grandfathers'...they had seen and done and what they had read, heard, and dreamed.' " At the opposite side of the continent, nearly a century subsequent to Bunker Hill battle,... | |
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Some of those who gave in affidavits about the battle could not have been in it, nor even in its neighborhood. They had got so used to telling the story for the wonderment of village listeners as grandfathers... 