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Pagina xiii
... write ; your Lordship who rewards me for writing : the same motive , therefore , which induced me to at- tempt the history of the one , engages me to dedi- cate it to the other , that I may express my grati- tude to you both , in the ...
... write ; your Lordship who rewards me for writing : the same motive , therefore , which induced me to at- tempt the history of the one , engages me to dedi- cate it to the other , that I may express my grati- tude to you both , in the ...
Pagina xv
... write , is generally grounded on prepossession , and an affection already contracted for the person , whose history we are attempting ; and when we sit down to it with the disposition of a friend , it is natural for us to cast a shade ...
... write , is generally grounded on prepossession , and an affection already contracted for the person , whose history we are attempting ; and when we sit down to it with the disposition of a friend , it is natural for us to cast a shade ...
Pagina xvi
... writer , it is certain , that , in a work of this nature , he will have many more to combat in the reader . The scene of it is laid in a place and age , which are familiar to us from our childhood : we learn the names of all the chief ...
... writer , it is certain , that , in a work of this nature , he will have many more to combat in the reader . The scene of it is laid in a place and age , which are familiar to us from our childhood : we learn the names of all the chief ...
Pagina xvii
... writer on any part of history , which he has made his particular study , may be presumed to be better acquainted with it , than the generality of his read- ers ; and when he asserts a fact , that does not seem to be well grounded , it ...
... writer on any part of history , which he has made his particular study , may be presumed to be better acquainted with it , than the generality of his read- ers ; and when he asserts a fact , that does not seem to be well grounded , it ...
Pagina xix
... writer should not dare to affirm what was false , or to sup- press what was true ; nor give any suspicion either of favor or disaffection : -that , in the relation of facts , he should observe the order of time , and sometimes add the ...
... writer should not dare to affirm what was false , or to sup- press what was true ; nor give any suspicion either of favor or disaffection : -that , in the relation of facts , he should observe the order of time , and sometimes add the ...
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