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... was a genius more happily adapted to the writing of history than that of Tacitus . He was a statesman and an orator , and master of all the learning of his age . His discernment and knowledge of hu- man nature 32 TACITUS .
... was a genius more happily adapted to the writing of history than that of Tacitus . He was a statesman and an orator , and master of all the learning of his age . His discernment and knowledge of hu- man nature 32 TACITUS .
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... adapted to the recording of recent events than to the relation of facts long past , and therefore less immediately in- teresting . After the revival of letters , the Germans seem to have more particularly applied to the writing of ...
... adapted to the recording of recent events than to the relation of facts long past , and therefore less immediately in- teresting . After the revival of letters , the Germans seem to have more particularly applied to the writing of ...
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... adapted by nature , should have been wasted on the compilation of a dull , and in all respects very indifferent history . The popularity of Sterne is so far passed away , that it seems like insulting the ashes of the dead to criticize ...
... adapted by nature , should have been wasted on the compilation of a dull , and in all respects very indifferent history . The popularity of Sterne is so far passed away , that it seems like insulting the ashes of the dead to criticize ...
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... adapted to almost any of the departments of literature . In that may be taught all that is important in science and useful in life . A charming specimen we have of didactic epistles in the Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son ; and ...
... adapted to almost any of the departments of literature . In that may be taught all that is important in science and useful in life . A charming specimen we have of didactic epistles in the Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son ; and ...
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... adapted to any subject , or almost any style . It is , how- ever , a very clumsy mode of conveying either sentiments or facts . The dialogues of Plato may perhaps be excused , if we consider them ( as perhaps we ought ) transcripts of ...
... adapted to any subject , or almost any style . It is , how- ever , a very clumsy mode of conveying either sentiments or facts . The dialogues of Plato may perhaps be excused , if we consider them ( as perhaps we ought ) transcripts of ...
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