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... elegant- and rhetorical . Such were the works of Thuci- dydes , Xenophon , Polybius , Sallust , and per- haps Herodotus and Livy . With respect to the attaining of information also , as they had not the advantages of modern writers ...
... elegant- and rhetorical . Such were the works of Thuci- dydes , Xenophon , Polybius , Sallust , and per- haps Herodotus and Livy . With respect to the attaining of information also , as they had not the advantages of modern writers ...
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... elegant and accomplished Xenophon . If we regard his continuation of Thucidydes , he will class with general historians ; since his object was evidently to make it a general his- tory , of Greece at least , for a considerable pe- riod ...
... elegant and accomplished Xenophon . If we regard his continuation of Thucidydes , he will class with general historians ; since his object was evidently to make it a general his- tory , of Greece at least , for a considerable pe- riod ...
Side 36
... the historian's trust , " Unsway'd by party , and to freedom just . " We had , however , scarcely any work of the historical kind in our language , which deserves : the name of elegant , till the present times . 36 RAPIN .
... the historian's trust , " Unsway'd by party , and to freedom just . " We had , however , scarcely any work of the historical kind in our language , which deserves : the name of elegant , till the present times . 36 RAPIN .
Side 37
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. the name of elegant , till the present times . Lord Littleton's Henry is a fine and chaste com- position , but is rather prolix . It would be un- fair , though I dislike his principles both po ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. the name of elegant , till the present times . Lord Littleton's Henry is a fine and chaste com- position , but is rather prolix . It would be un- fair , though I dislike his principles both po ...
Side 39
... elegant . His America is the least valuable of his histories ; but the sub- ject was better known , and had been treated by other modern historians . With an imagination more vigorous , and a style more ROBERTSON . 39.
... elegant . His America is the least valuable of his histories ; but the sub- ject was better known , and had been treated by other modern historians . With an imagination more vigorous , and a style more ROBERTSON . 39.
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