I admire him greatly, and would give a quarter's salary to recover the lost Decades.

While I was reading the earlier books I went again through Niebuhr.

And I am sorry to say that, having always been a little sceptical about his merits, I am now a confirmed unbeliever.

I do not of course mean that he has no merit.

He was a man of immense learning, and of great ingenuity.