The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1864 - Rome |
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... writers with little acknowledgment . At the head of each of my chapters in the Table of Contents I have placed the title of the books of the Supplement which treat of the matter contained in each chapter . Thus I have followed the order ...
... writers with little acknowledgment . At the head of each of my chapters in the Table of Contents I have placed the title of the books of the Supplement which treat of the matter contained in each chapter . Thus I have followed the order ...
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... writer and less attractive to those readers who dislike the trouble of thinking , and look for amusement more than for truth ; for there are such readers and writers too . Thu- cydides says , that most men are impatient of labour in the ...
... writer and less attractive to those readers who dislike the trouble of thinking , and look for amusement more than for truth ; for there are such readers and writers too . Thu- cydides says , that most men are impatient of labour in the ...
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... writer who has done his best to establish the facts and to put them in their proper order without any unnecessary words . If the narrative is sometimes tedious , it must be remembered that truth cannot be reached without labour , and ...
... writer who has done his best to establish the facts and to put them in their proper order without any unnecessary words . If the narrative is sometimes tedious , it must be remembered that truth cannot be reached without labour , and ...
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... writer's good sense , may become impertinent digressions , which , as Hobbes says , may be " forced to serve the purpose of the writer in adorning his style or manifesting his subtlety in conjecturing . " I have written what may be ...
... writer's good sense , may become impertinent digressions , which , as Hobbes says , may be " forced to serve the purpose of the writer in adorning his style or manifesting his subtlety in conjecturing . " I have written what may be ...
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... writer . His experience of public affairs and his great sagacity place him as a political writer as far above all modern writers , as Thucydides stands above all men who have written history ; for in Thucydides the faculty of writing ...
... writer . His experience of public affairs and his great sagacity place him as a political writer as far above all modern writers , as Thucydides stands above all men who have written history ; for in Thucydides the faculty of writing ...
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