Yet in both cases, the direction and verdict of history amount to the same thing: an ethical stance determined by public opinion and prevailing tastes. (firstthings.com)
William Lecky, a Victorian historian, had this to say: «Of that Byzantine empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed. (firstthings.com)
Indeed both she and her immediate predecessor, Anne of Cleves, suffer the worst from pejorative verdicts of history. (bookbrowse.com)