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... admit of ornament or not is a remote consideration compared with this indis- pensable quality . On this account , the writer of even an extended history should take care to have a clear and comprehensive view of the sub- ject in his ...
... admit of ornament or not is a remote consideration compared with this indis- pensable quality . On this account , the writer of even an extended history should take care to have a clear and comprehensive view of the sub- ject in his ...
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... admit of certain subdivisions , viz . his- tory , properly so called , and chronicles , an- nals and memoirs . The first histories of all nations , I have no doubt , were originally in verse ; and those early histories which are now ...
... admit of certain subdivisions , viz . his- tory , properly so called , and chronicles , an- nals and memoirs . The first histories of all nations , I have no doubt , were originally in verse ; and those early histories which are now ...
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... admit of eloquence , and its best com- mendation is fidelity . This quality indeed we must necessarily require in the annalist ; but the graces of style are less confidently expected from him than from the professed historian . In ...
... admit of eloquence , and its best com- mendation is fidelity . This quality indeed we must necessarily require in the annalist ; but the graces of style are less confidently expected from him than from the professed historian . In ...
Side 46
... admit of a variety of style . They may rise to any height of elegance , or they may be loose and unstudied minutes . The former will class with laboured and arti- ficial compositions , and will admit of any de- gree of polish ; but in ...
... admit of a variety of style . They may rise to any height of elegance , or they may be loose and unstudied minutes . The former will class with laboured and arti- ficial compositions , and will admit of any de- gree of polish ; but in ...
Side 52
... admit of a close comparison , and Plutarch's are often fanciful and vague ; besides that , I cannot see the utility of them . When I first read them they appeared tedious and without an end ; and I have not since learned to like them ...
... admit of a close comparison , and Plutarch's are often fanciful and vague ; besides that , I cannot see the utility of them . When I first read them they appeared tedious and without an end ; and I have not since learned to like them ...
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