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Excerpt from Essays, or Discourses, Vol. 3: Selected From the Works of Feyjoo, and Translated From the Spanish by John Brett, Esq.
III. In thefe fame great hiflorians, other tritics find out other faults. Plutarch obferves, that Herodotus is inviduous and fpiteful. Againfi Greece. It is a general opinion, that he mixed many fables with his billory, which he carried tutfuch a length, that there have been fome,, Who, infiead of bellowing on him the magnifi cent epithet of the Father of Hifiory, have called hint. The inventor of fable. Dionyfius Halicar nafius denies the language of Xenophon to be fplendid or majel'tic, adding, that whenever he attempts to elevate his (tile, he infiantly falls off, and'fhews himfelf'unable to fupport it. Voilius remarks, that the {tile of Polybius is.
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