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... whole . The difficulties which I have now enumerated -will in some measure anticipate the rules for narrative composition ; if indeed any rules can be laid down for governing the fancy , and di- recting the taste . Perspicuity , it will ...
... whole . The difficulties which I have now enumerated -will in some measure anticipate the rules for narrative composition ; if indeed any rules can be laid down for governing the fancy , and di- recting the taste . Perspicuity , it will ...
Side 18
... whole code of laws , civil and religious , which was given to the people of Israel . If no religious character was attached to it ; if we ceased to venerate it as the origin and source of that faith which we profess , it would be a most ...
... whole code of laws , civil and religious , which was given to the people of Israel . If no religious character was attached to it ; if we ceased to venerate it as the origin and source of that faith which we profess , it would be a most ...
Side 32
... whole to form a connected chain , comprehending the history of the Roman empire from the age of Augustus to his own time . There never was a genius more happily adapted to the writing of history than that of Tacitus . He was a statesman ...
... whole to form a connected chain , comprehending the history of the Roman empire from the age of Augustus to his own time . There never was a genius more happily adapted to the writing of history than that of Tacitus . He was a statesman ...
Side 34
... whole catalogue of historical wri- ters , but to point your attention to a few who ought to be studied as models ; to give a sort of history of history . I shall therefore pass to those of our own country , for I cannot help subscribing ...
... whole catalogue of historical wri- ters , but to point your attention to a few who ought to be studied as models ; to give a sort of history of history . I shall therefore pass to those of our own country , for I cannot help subscribing ...
Side 40
... whole of his ecclesiastical details . might have been curtailed . If in his style there is any fault , it is perhaps an excess of orna- ment , and this occasionally produces a degree of ambiguity . But his style was character istically ...
... whole of his ecclesiastical details . might have been curtailed . If in his style there is any fault , it is perhaps an excess of orna- ment , and this occasionally produces a degree of ambiguity . But his style was character istically ...
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