...the whole, this department of literature has gained or lost during the last two-and-twenty centuries. The best historians of later times have been seduced from truth, not by their imagination, but by tljeir reason. They far excel their predecessors in the art of deducing general principles from facts....

...the whole, this department of literature has gained or lost during the last two-and-twenty centuries. The best historians of later times have been seduced...far excel their predecessors in the art of deducing generail principles from facts. But unhappily they have fallen into HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.*...

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...have far surpassed those of antiquity. Modern historians, however, have their faults. The best of them have been seduced from truth, not by their imagination,...distorting facts to suit general principles. They frame a theory from looking at some of the phenomena, and the remaining phenomena they strain or curtail...

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...lost during the last twoind-lwenty centuries. The best Historians of later times have been «educed from truth, not by their imagination, but by their...deducing general principles from facts. But unhappily tney have faüen into the error of distorting facts to suit general principles. They arrive at a theory...

...the whole, this department of literature has gained or lost during the last twoand-twenty centuries. The best Historians of later times have been seduced...deducing general principles from facts. But unhappily tney have fallen into the error of distorting facts to suit general principles. They arrive at a theory...

...department of literature has gained or lost during the last twoand-twenty centuries. The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth, not by...deducing general principles from facts. But unhappily mey have fallen into the error of distorting facts to suit general principles. They arrive at a theory...