Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury records a story that when the new sheriff of Worcester, Urse d ' Abetot, encroached on the cemetery of the cathedral chapter for Worcester Cathedral, Ealdred pronounced a rhyming curse on him, saying " Thou are called Urse.

Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

* William of Malmesbury ( c 1095 – c1143 )

William of Malmesbury writes that Gofraid, together with Sihtric's young son Olaf Cuaran fled north and received refuge from Constantine, which led to war with Æthelstan.

Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury add some lively detail by suggesting that Edmund had been feasting with his nobles, when he spotted Leofa in the crowd.

" The chronicler William of Malmesbury asserts that Henry once remarked that an illiterate king was a crowned ass.

Other material from Thomas of Elmham, Gervase of Canterbury, and William of Malmesbury, later medieval chroniclers, adds little to Bede's account of Justus ' life.

Fulcher's chronicle was very popular and was used as a source by other historians in the west, such as Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury.

This interpretation derives from the Chronicle attributed to the 14th-century chronicler of Scotland, John of Fordun, as well as from earlier sources such as William of Malmesbury.

Some Medieval commentators, following William of Malmesbury, claimed that Duncan was illegitimate, but this claim is propaganda reflecting the need of Malcolm's descendants by Margaret to undermine the claims of Duncan's descendants, the Meic Uilleim.

According to William of Malmesbury ( c. 1080 – c.

Around forty years later William of Malmesbury believing the Abbey older, said that David visited Glastonbury only to rededicate the Abbey and donate a travelling altar including a great sapphire.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury says that the king also seized and depopulated many miles of land ( 36 parishes ), turning it into the royal New Forest region to support his enthusiastic enjoyment of hunting.

According to William of Malmesbury, William Rufus was " well set ; his complexion florid, his hair yellow ; of open countenance ; different coloured eyes, varying with certain glittering specks ; of astonishing strength, though not very tall, and his belly rather projecting.

William of Malmesbury in his account of William's death stated that the body was taken to Winchester Cathedral by a few countrymen.

* William of Malmesbury, English historian

** William of Malmesbury, English historian ( b. 1080 )

Historians have puzzled over Edward's intentions for the succession since William of Malmesbury in the early 12th century.

* William of Malmesbury, The History of the English Kings, i, ed. and trans.

William of Malmesbury asserts that Godwin had been overwhelmed " in power and in numbers " by Harold.

John of Worcester says that the group supporting Edgar vacillated over what to do while William ravaged the countryside, which led to Ealdred and Edgar's submission to William.

As William says, " he was a man of wisdom and discretion, fully competent to hold the reins of government in the kingdom.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had " gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

* Benedick, from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, says " But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric all women shall pardon me.

William the Breton also says in his column that the two lines of combatants were separated by a small space.

He says the first is the type associated with William Godwin that advocates self-government with a " progressive rationalism that included benevolence to others.

It is Imhotep, says Sir William Osler, who was the real " Father of Medicine ", " the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity.

William F. Albright has dated his reign to 786 BC – 746 BC, while E. R. Thiele says he was coregent with Jehoash 793 BC to 782 BC and sole ruler 782 BC to 753 BC.

William E. Odom, former director of the U. S. National Security Agency and author of The Collapse of the Soviet Military, says that Rust ’ s flight irreparably damaged the reputation of the Soviet military.

He says that his style is so distinctive and unchanging that ' every word doth almost tell my name ,' implying that his name is otherwise concealed – at a time when he is publishing long poems under the name William Shakespeare.

William S. Anderson discusses the believability of Menander versus the believability of Plautus and, in essence, says that Plautus ’ plays are much less believable than those plays of Menander because they seem to be such a farce in comparison.

Brian Doherty quotes Heinlein cites William Patterson, saying that best way to gain an understanding of Heinlein is as a " full-service iconoclast, the unique individual who decides that things do not have to be, and won't continue, as they are .” He says this vision is " at the heart of Heinlein, science fiction, libertarianism, and America.

Golden age hip hop ( cited as either just the late ' 80s or the late 80s to early 90s ) was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says " in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time " and Allmusic writes, " rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop ”.

In William Shakespeare's play King Lear ( c. 1600 ), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says They could not, would not do't ; ' tis worse than murder: a conventional attitude at that time.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

The account of the battle Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (" Song of the Battle of Hastings "), said to have been written shortly after the battle by Guy, Bishop of Amiens, says that Harold was killed by four knights, probably including Duke William, and his body brutally dismembered.

William himself says almost nothing about the election and Heraclius ' character or his subsequent patriarchate, probably reflecting his disappointment at the outcome.

He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

* In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena says to Demetrius, " You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!

Quackery not only harms people, it undermines the ability to conduct scientific research and should be opposed by scientists ", says William T. Jarvis.