Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلدات 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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الصفحة vi
... historian as he appeared in the latter years of his life . The biographical and critical Introduction is from the well - known pen of Mr. E. P. Whipple , who is fully entitled to speak with authority in regard to the most brilliant ...
... historian as he appeared in the latter years of his life . The biographical and critical Introduction is from the well - known pen of Mr. E. P. Whipple , who is fully entitled to speak with authority in regard to the most brilliant ...
الصفحة x
... historian . He possessed the understanding of the philosopher only so far as it is necessary to throw into relations the vividly conceived facts derived from the records of the annalist . He could not create , but he could reproduce ...
... historian . He possessed the understanding of the philosopher only so far as it is necessary to throw into relations the vividly conceived facts derived from the records of the annalist . He could not create , but he could reproduce ...
الصفحة xi
... historian had recorded in words . All men are more positive in regard to what they have seen than in re- gard to what they have heard . If what they have seen awakens in them joy and enthusiasm , their ex- pression is instinctively ...
... historian had recorded in words . All men are more positive in regard to what they have seen than in re- gard to what they have heard . If what they have seen awakens in them joy and enthusiasm , their ex- pression is instinctively ...
الصفحة 141
... historian of literature . Aristotle is its phi- losopher . Quintilian applied to general literature the same principles by which he had been accustomed to judge of the declamations of his pupils . He looks for noth- ing but rhetoric ...
... historian of literature . Aristotle is its phi- losopher . Quintilian applied to general literature the same principles by which he had been accustomed to judge of the declamations of his pupils . He looks for noth- ing but rhetoric ...
الصفحة 144
... a narration ; that Livy could be a less veracious historian than Polybius ; or that Plutarch could know less about the friends of Xeno- ― · phon than Xenophon himself . Deceived by the dis- tance 144 ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS .
... a narration ; that Livy could be a less veracious historian than Polybius ; or that Plutarch could know less about the friends of Xeno- ― · phon than Xenophon himself . Deceived by the dis- tance 144 ON THE ATHENIAN ORATORS .
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