Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, Том 3Bell and Bradfute, and Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh., 1811 - 838 страница |
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... narration , so ele- gant , so picturesque , so animated , and interesting as that of Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Livy , Tacitus , and Sallust . Although the con- duct of the drama may be admitted to have re- ceived some ...
... narration , so ele- gant , so picturesque , so animated , and interesting as that of Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Livy , Tacitus , and Sallust . Although the con- duct of the drama may be admitted to have re- ceived some ...
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... narration of the principal story . Among the moderns , the President Thu- anus has , by attempting to make the history of his own times too comprehensive , fallen into the same error , of loading the reader with a great variety of ...
... narration of the principal story . Among the moderns , the President Thu- anus has , by attempting to make the history of his own times too comprehensive , fallen into the same error , of loading the reader with a great variety of ...
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... the ele- gance of narration , and the painting of characters , than to the unfolding of secret causes and springs . Instead of that complete information , which we would naturally LECT . XXXVI . 29 HISTORICAL WRITING .
... the ele- gance of narration , and the painting of characters , than to the unfolding of secret causes and springs . Instead of that complete information , which we would naturally LECT . XXXVI . 29 HISTORICAL WRITING .
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... narration , that his- tory should instruct us , than by delivering in- struction in an avowed and direct manner . On some occasions , when doubtful points require to be scrutinized , or when some great event is in agitation , concerning ...
... narration , that his- tory should instruct us , than by delivering in- struction in an avowed and direct manner . On some occasions , when doubtful points require to be scrutinized , or when some great event is in agitation , concerning ...
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... narration , in assigning a reason for the anxiety of Germanicus . We have another instance of the same kind , in the account which " It belongs to human nature to hate the man whom you " haye injured . " " Uneasy in his mind , on ...
... narration , in assigning a reason for the anxiety of Germanicus . We have another instance of the same kind , in the account which " It belongs to human nature to hate the man whom you " haye injured . " " Uneasy in his mind , on ...
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