Besides, the general correctness of Irish annalists in recording purely historic events is now admitted by all those capable of forming an opinion.
Our annalists almost invariably call it the "Drogheda Monastery.
We must not pooh-pooh the statement of Irish annalists as to the enormous antiquity they give to persons who figure in early Irish history.
It often happens, however, that Irish annalists and historians, so fond were they of looking backward to the past, make things appear as they had been, and not as they were when they wrote.
The Irish annalists who wrote about the very remote historical events of Irish history lived and wrote long before Ireland came under English domination.
Tighearnach, who lived in the eleventh century, is the only one of the Irish annalists who mentions him.
It was so often plundered by them that it is hardly to be wondered at that the annalists should not have been able to keep account of every time it was harried by the Northmen.
If he had been taken in battle and defeated, it must be admitted that it is strange that Irish annalists did not say so and give particulars of the battle.
According to Irish annalists it was founded by an over-king called Fiacha, 1203 years B.
It is however much to the credit of De Soto, that the annalists of those days never mentioned his name in connection with those atrocities which disgraced the administration of Don Pedro.
The chief had heard of the approach of the Spaniards, and the annalists of those days say, we know not with what authority, that he hesitated whether to receive them as friends or foes.
The monuments, indeed, show us that Egypt in the past obeyed princes whom herannalists were unable to classify: for instance, they associated with Sondi a Pirsenu, who is not mentioned in the annals.
The Chinese annalists state that never was the frontier more disturbed, and even the establishment of horse fairs for the benefit of the Mongols failed to keep them quiet.
The shortcomings of the defense can be inferred from the circumstances of the Chinese annalists making special mention of one governor having had the courage to die at his post.
The Chinese annaliststell many stories of Taitsong's personal courage.
On the whole, Vouti was a creditable ruler, although the Chinese annalists blame him for his superstition and denounce his partiality for Buddhism.
Several of the annalists of epidemic constitutions agree as to fatal anginas in the year 1727, with an exanthem of the miliary kind.
More probably he took his opinions on the authority of later annalists like Macer, Antias, and Tubero.
Of the prose writers contemporary with Accius, the most important were the annalists L.
He fought (as far as we can discern his conduct from the fragmentary notices of the annalistsand panegyrists) with a sort of sullen savageness, like a wild beast at bay, but without skill either of strategy or tactics.
Footnote 133: Possibly of Albinus also, but he disappears from the story, according to the tantalising manner of the annalists from whom we get our information.
Footnote 63: The annalists whom Livy copied spoke of Nero's gaining repeated victories over Hannibal, and killing and taking his men by tens of thousands.
The annalistsof the Chinese chronicles placed the date of the Creation at a point of time two millions of years before Confucius; this interval they filled up with lines of dynasties.
Many of my readers will doubtless feel that too much time has been spent in the discussion of these annalists of the siege of Florence.
The Annalists denounce this expulsion; but they seem afraid to mention openly the authors of the crime.
We do not read in any of our Annalists that he was Bishop of Cashel before he became King of Munster; indeed it is very doubtful if he were ever Bishop of Cashel at all.
All our annalists agree in representing Cormac as both a pious and learned prince; but we cannot call him either a great king or a great saint.
Aldfrid, during the years he spent in Ireland, became intimate with Adamnan--our annalists call him the alumnus, or foster son of Adamnan.
Guaire, if not actually king at this date, was an influential chief, and his defeat with others at the battle of Carn Fearadhaigh in Limerick is noted by the annalists in A.
The early annalists were men of action and eminent station, who desired to record the important events in which they themselves had taken part, and to fix them for ever in the annals of their country.
Although the earliest Roman annalists composed their works in the Greek language, it was not from the desire of imitating the historic art of Greece that this art was first cultivated at Rome.
A similar lack of elegance seems to have belonged to the works of the other annalists of this time.
The annalists who wrote in Greek, such as Fabius Pictor, were followed, soon after the middle of the second century B.
The first of these Latin annalistswas Lucius Cassius Hemina, who wrote a history of Rome to his own time.
He only won the hatred of all classes, and was represented by the obscure annalists of that period as an oppressor of the church and a remorseless tyrant.
As the event is not disclosed by the annalists we may conclude that it was unsuccessful.
No candid reader can believe that the country was steeped in such absolute degeneracy as the Japanese annalists would have us believe, and which other writers who had not access to the Korean annals have described.
Under these terms, the native Annalists accurately describe the belligerents on either side.
Not only the Poets, but the more exact and simple Annalists applaud Brian's administration of the laws, and his personal virtues.
The Annalists of Donegal, who were old enough to have conversed with survivors of the battle, say that his mind became deranged by this sudden fall from the summit of prosperity to the depths of defeat.
Equal praise may be given to the Irish annalists in recording the same events, whether at first or second-hand.
He now entered into a secret engagement with de Cogan, whose force is stated by Giraldus at 500 men-at-arms, and by the Irish annalists as "a great army.
Fabius Maximus Servilianus (consul 142); or there may have been twoannalists of the name of Fabius Pictor.
But the native annalistssay the plunder was great, and they speak in a way which shows how insecure was Irish life.
The Earl's own account does not justify him, while the Irish annalists charge him with the blackest treachery.
The Irish annalists say that this arrest was treacherous, but it does not appear that he had any safe-conduct.
The Connaught annalists more correctly record 'that there was not in Erin a greater destroyer against foreigners than that man; and he was a very great loss.
Being such as he was, the vast majority of Irishmen probably rejoiced at his fall, and the Irish annalists do not pretend that he was much loss, except to his own tribe.
He steadily maintained that his victim was the smith's son, and no relation; but the Irish annalists lend him no countenance, for they remark that the deed was 'unbecoming in a kinsman.
They at once attacked the Irish in flank, and Shane in turn suffered some loss; indeed, the annalists say, with a fine rhetorical vagueness, that countless numbers were slain on both sides.
The stories telling of the deaths of the gods in the annalists may be based on old myths in which they were said to die, these myths being connected with ritual acts in which the human representatives of gods were slain.
In theannalists she is daughter of Dagda, and has three sons.
They appear in connection with all the colonies which came to Erin, the annalists regarding the priests or medicine-men of different races as Druids, through lack of historic perspective.
The genealogists explain his relationship to the other divinities in different ways, but these confusions may result from the fact that gods had more than one name, of which the annalists made separate personalities.
And if the annalists are right in fixing upon the day of the year on which he was born, his birth-day was in the month next following the birth-day of Bolinbroke.
His own writings are of a somewhat impersonal character, while the Irish annalists seldom bring to their portrayal of historical persons that power of characterisation and description constantly apparent in the romances.
The period in which the ancient annalists flourished, also produced several biographical works; and these being lives of men distinguished in the state, may be ranked in the number of histories.
As his account of Roman affairs was written in Greek, I omit in the list of Latin annalists Lucius Cincius Alimentus, who was contemporary with Fabius, having been taken prisoner by Hannibal during the second Punic war.
But, in addition to these copious sources of information, it will be remarked, that the annalists themselves had often personal knowledge of the facts they related.
The first part of this work contains a succinct account of the ancient Roman Annalists and Historians.
Niebuhr thinks, that of all the Roman annalists he is chiefly responsible for having introduced into history the fables of the ancient heroic ballads(152).
Some of these more modernannalists wrote the History of Rome from the commencement of the state; others took up the relation from the burning of Rome by the Gauls, or confined themselves to events which had occurred in their own time.
Accordingly, when the later annalists came to write of the affairs of their own time, they found historical documents more full and satisfactory than those of almost any other country.
But though, perhaps, equally barren in style, much greater trust and reliance may be placed on the annalists of the time of Marius and Sylla than of the second Punic war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
