...which facts are now reported and recorded by very incompetent persons, often upon very indifferent and hearsay testimony, and compare with such records the...modern history, equally long and equally eventful. His whole work shows the most scrupulous care and diligence in ascertaining facts, while his strict...

...recorded by very incompetent persons, often upon very indifferent and hearsay testimony, and compare witli such records the pains that Thucydides took to ascertain...modern history, equally long and equally eventful. His whole work shows the most scrupulous care and diligence in ascertaining facts, while his strict...

...is, that, according to the estimate of an able critic,1 we have a more exact history of a long and eventful period by Thucydides than we have of any period in modern history, equally long and eventful ; and all this is compressed into a volume.2 Xenophon is the last of the trio of the Greek...

...at all events his death can not be placed later than 401. With regard to his work, we may conclude that we have a more exact history of a long eventful...period in modern history equally long and equally cventfuL THtfLE (-Os), an island in the N. part of the German Ocean, regarded by the ancients as the...

...the whole meaning of the passage. b 5 Ферски'Зт;!'. See 470 di, note. 479 ai ©ouKuSÍSijc. ' When we know the careless way in which facts are now...modern history, equally long and equally eventful ' (G. Long, Diet. Gk. and R. Biogr.). a 7 e'¿ ápxí/c, Josephus. For this ¿¿crao-oiji/at is found...

...events his death cannot be placed later than 401. With regard to his work, we may conclude that_we have a more exact history of a long eventful period...modern history, equally long and equally eventful. — Macaulay regarded Thucydides as "the greatest historian that ever lived;" and his judgment is _...