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Page 10
... writer who rises above tediousness will sometimes employ the periodic style . Herodotus's style has a remarkable uniformity ; an immense amount of careful polish must have gone into it . It is uniform but not monotonous . It is a ...
... writer who rises above tediousness will sometimes employ the periodic style . Herodotus's style has a remarkable uniformity ; an immense amount of careful polish must have gone into it . It is uniform but not monotonous . It is a ...
Page 13
... writer would avail himself of foot- notes , addenda , excursuses . These the ancient writer did not have . Most of the episodes and digressions are accounted for by the fact that our author included in his History the whole life of the ...
... writer would avail himself of foot- notes , addenda , excursuses . These the ancient writer did not have . Most of the episodes and digressions are accounted for by the fact that our author included in his History the whole life of the ...
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... writer says : " Thucydides may have written at best good Thracian ; but the world still prefers Thucyd- ides's Thracian to Rutherford's Thucydidean . " The attempt , in the absence of any manuscript of com- manding authority , was bound ...
... writer says : " Thucydides may have written at best good Thracian ; but the world still prefers Thucyd- ides's Thracian to Rutherford's Thucydidean . " The attempt , in the absence of any manuscript of com- manding authority , was bound ...
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