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Side 5
... never committed a sentence to paper till it was perfectly formed in his mind . The purest , best , and most expressive terms , should be chosen for narrative . Many of the vulgarisms which are allowed in the oratorical effusions of Mr ...
... never committed a sentence to paper till it was perfectly formed in his mind . The purest , best , and most expressive terms , should be chosen for narrative . Many of the vulgarisms which are allowed in the oratorical effusions of Mr ...
Side 14
... never have done with ; divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history properly so called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st . Those general histories which record the transactions of a nation from its rise ...
... never have done with ; divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history properly so called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st . Those general histories which record the transactions of a nation from its rise ...
Side 26
... never rises to the sublime , but is always chaste , correct , elegant , and engaging . He enchains the mind of his reader , and renders him impatient to hear what event is next to occur . Simplicity is a remarkable character- istic of ...
... never rises to the sublime , but is always chaste , correct , elegant , and engaging . He enchains the mind of his reader , and renders him impatient to hear what event is next to occur . Simplicity is a remarkable character- istic of ...
Side 32
... never 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 .
... never 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 .
Side 35
... never been proved . He lived in times when party regarded calumny as a duty , and he embraced the thankless side , the side of liberty . Clarendon is not to be considered as a gene- ral historian , since his subject is confined to the ...
... never been proved . He lived in times when party regarded calumny as a duty , and he embraced the thankless side , the side of liberty . Clarendon is not to be considered as a gene- ral historian , since his subject is confined to the ...
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