was not at all pretty. The children were rather bored by

statesman — were elaborated by Thucydides; it must yet be maintained that they were not foreign

to the character of the speaker. 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

political relations, and of their moral and spiritual nature; and the principle of their designs and

conduct. What the historian puts into their mouths is no supposititious system of ideas, but an

uncorrupted transcript of their intellectual and moral habitudes.

Of these historians, whom we must make thoroughly our own, with whom we must linger long, if

we would live with their respective nations, and enter deeply into their spirit: of these historians, to