the inconsistency that prevail elsewhere, even in his treatment of chief points of interest. The
difference between such a compiler and an original historian may be best seen by comparing
Polybius himself with the style in which Livy uses, expands, and abridges his annals in those
period; of which Polybius's account has been preserved. Johann von Müller has given a stiff,
鈥業t鈥formal, pedantic aspect of history, in the endeavour to remain faithful in his portraiture to the times
鈥業t鈥he describes. We much prefer the narratives we find in old Tschudy. All is more naive and natural
鈥業t鈥than it appears in the garb of a fictitious and affected archaism.
鈥業t鈥A history which aspires to traverse long periods of time, or to be universal, must indeed forego the
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