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The notes may have been jejune, but they were probably accurate, and free from the perversions of family vanity or such lengthy rhetorical ornamentation as became the universal fashion among private writers of annalistic history.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
A second annalistic group is that postulated as the original of the so called Broken Obelisk.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
That we are at the very beginning of annalistic writing is clear, even from the fragmentary remains.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
But what we learn from archaeological records is annalistic not historic, since such records have not passed through the transforming crucible of a human intelligence which reasons on events as effects of causes.
From The Ancient East by Hogarth, D. G. (David George)
It was not until the end of the fourteenth century B. C. with the reign of Arik den ilu, that we have the appearance of actual annalistic inscriptions.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
