The Roman History, Bind 1C. and J. Rivington, 1827 |
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Side vii
... Livy - an opposite course was not only pardonable , but called for : and here , while studiously adhering to fidelity of version , I have paid the necessary attention to perspicuity of style . I am not weak enough to anticipate any ...
... Livy - an opposite course was not only pardonable , but called for : and here , while studiously adhering to fidelity of version , I have paid the necessary attention to perspicuity of style . I am not weak enough to anticipate any ...
Side x
... . The history of the first four centuries is acknow- ledged to be uncertain and falsified . It would be , how- ever , very absurd to censure Livy for having , with the exception of a few doubts , represented it as purely X PREFACE .
... . The history of the first four centuries is acknow- ledged to be uncertain and falsified . It would be , how- ever , very absurd to censure Livy for having , with the exception of a few doubts , represented it as purely X PREFACE .
Side 1
... Livy and Tacitus , a connected his- tory from the foundation of the city to the time of Nerva , it would be both vain and injudicious to at- tempt a narrative of the occurrences which these his- torians had already detailed ; because we ...
... Livy and Tacitus , a connected his- tory from the foundation of the city to the time of Nerva , it would be both vain and injudicious to at- tempt a narrative of the occurrences which these his- torians had already detailed ; because we ...
Side 2
... Livy has either left us without information or only leads us astray . But since these works exist only in a muti- lated state , and are silent respecting epochs , which probably surpass , in importance of events , those which they have ...
... Livy has either left us without information or only leads us astray . But since these works exist only in a muti- lated state , and are silent respecting epochs , which probably surpass , in importance of events , those which they have ...
Side 6
... Livy ; the charms of whose impassioned eloquence , investing the mighty deeds and victories of their fore- fathers with the majestic ornaments of republican and civic virtues , were heightened by the wish to discover , in the times of ...
... Livy ; the charms of whose impassioned eloquence , investing the mighty deeds and victories of their fore- fathers with the majestic ornaments of republican and civic virtues , were heightened by the wish to discover , in the times of ...
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