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... reasons , which I shall afterwards assign , this is by far the easiest form of narrative com- position . Let any man of letters try to compose an ar- gumentativè , or even an oratorical discourse , and let him afterwards attempt a ...
... reasons , which I shall afterwards assign , this is by far the easiest form of narrative com- position . Let any man of letters try to compose an ar- gumentativè , or even an oratorical discourse , and let him afterwards attempt a ...
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... reason for the long periods of Claren- don , and some other historians . It is difficult too to draw the picture ; for narrative is a pic- ture in words , so that it shall be full , clear , and impressive , and keep awake the reader's ...
... reason for the long periods of Claren- don , and some other historians . It is difficult too to draw the picture ; for narrative is a pic- ture in words , so that it shall be full , clear , and impressive , and keep awake the reader's ...
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... reasons which I have already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion is of sufficient importance . Historical writing as such , without reference to the poetical histories is very ...
... reasons which I have already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion is of sufficient importance . Historical writing as such , without reference to the poetical histories is very ...
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... reason is obvious - Oratory is nearly allied to history , and no people ever cultivated oratory with more indefatigable at- tention . The democratical governments of these nations afforded such a scope for the dis- play of eloquence ...
... reason is obvious - Oratory is nearly allied to history , and no people ever cultivated oratory with more indefatigable at- tention . The democratical governments of these nations afforded such a scope for the dis- play of eloquence ...
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... reason to believe that he meant the 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 ...
... reason to believe that he meant the 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 ...
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