Pierre Le Moyne, Of the Art both of Writing and Judging of History (1695)
Date
1695
Author
Book title
Of The Art Both of Writing & Judging Of History, With Reflections Upon Ancient as well as Modern Historians. Shewing Through what Defects there are so few Good; and that it is Impossible there should be many so much as Tolerable
Publication place
London
Publisher
R. Sare and J. Hindmarsh
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Bible
- history
Summary
Includes discursive definitions of history and religion
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: LET us then make a Definition or Picture of History, that may be more Natural than that Vossius has left us of her: And 'twill not only be more Natural, but Entire and Compleat, if we say, That History is a continued Narration of things true, Great and Publick, writ with Spirit, Eloquence and Judgment; for Instruction to Particulars and Princes, and Good of Civil Society.
sample: LET us then make a Definition or Picture of History, that may be more Natural than that Vossius has left us of her: And 'twill not only be more Natural, but Entire and Compleat, if we say, That History is a continued Narration of things true, Great and Publick, writ with Spirit, Eloquence and Judgment; for Instruction to Particulars and Princes, and Good of Civil Society.
Alston
VI.109a
Wing
L1046
