The principle of verisimilitude and of probability dominates in fact all historical criticism.

The deadly enemy of good, sound history is scientific historical criticism.

By this term I do not mean conjectural and literary- historical criticism.

How ridiculous the cool superciliousness with which modern historical criticism 'pooh-poohs' that interpretation!

My faith has been destroyed by historical criticism, not by scholasticism nor by philosophy.

We have no difficulty in agreeing that historical criticism of literature is a kind apart.

This also is to be observed in historical criticism.

A commission, composed of physiologists, physicists, chemists, persons accustomed to historical criticism, would be named.

The spirit of historical criticism in the present age is on the whole a charitable spirit.

For in the days before historical criticism was invented, the history of Rome was very luxuriant.

This is what used to be described in the phraseology of historical criticism as epic breadth.

It was a wilful fabrication, made in the infancy of archaeology when historical criticism was non-existent.

But you have not a proof which can stand the test of psychological or historical criticism.

To enter into any serious historical criticism of these stories would be to break a butterfly.

And such stuff we are expected to receive as historical criticism, and the philosophy of history!

He received an excellent education which served to fortify a natural bent toward languages and historical criticism.