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... 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 extant , even in prose , bear in some measure the characters of ...
... 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 extant , even in prose , bear in some measure the characters of ...
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... called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st . Those general histories which record the transactions of a nation from its rise to its fall ; and 2dly .. Those histories which treat of a particular pe- riod or a particular event ...
... called may again be divided under two heads ; 1st . Those general histories which record the transactions of a nation from its rise to its fall ; and 2dly .. Those histories which treat of a particular pe- riod or a particular event ...
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... called upon to defend his fellow soldiers , whose con duct is to influence the fate of his country , will acquire every information by studying Taci- tus . " Like his master Sallust , who is evidently in a great degree his model ...
... called upon to defend his fellow soldiers , whose con duct is to influence the fate of his country , will acquire every information by studying Taci- tus . " Like his master Sallust , who is evidently in a great degree his model ...
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... called these compositions by the name of comment- aries , and the most famous extant are those of Cæsar , containing the particulars of his wars in Gaul and Britain . A more perfect model of this kind of writing cannot be mentioned ...
... called these compositions by the name of comment- aries , and the most famous extant are those of Cæsar , containing the particulars of his wars in Gaul and Britain . A more perfect model of this kind of writing cannot be mentioned ...
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... called poietai ( makers ) . Not that every thing contained in a poem was sup- posed to be a new invention , for that could not be true , and particularly of descriptive poems ; but the composition as a whole might be re- garded more ...
... called poietai ( makers ) . Not that every thing contained in a poem was sup- posed to be a new invention , for that could not be true , and particularly of descriptive poems ; but the composition as a whole might be re- garded more ...
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