And his aim is nothing more than the presentation to posterity of an image of events as clear as that which he himself possessed in virtue of personal...

Such speeches as we find in Thucydides (for example) of which we can positively assert that they are not bona fide reports, would seem to make against our...

In the oration in question, these men proclaim the maxims adopted by their countrymen, and which formed their own character; they record their views of their...

Here a very important consideration will be the principles to which the author refers, the bearing and motives of the actions and events which he describes, and...

It is the aim of the investigator to gain a view of the entire history of a people or a country, or of the world, in short, what we call Universal History. In...