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... historians . These historians put together narratives that moved and were animated by papers , often reproduced in full , rather than by interpretation . Tacitly arguing that the papers spoke for themselves , they produced history that ...
... historians . These historians put together narratives that moved and were animated by papers , often reproduced in full , rather than by interpretation . Tacitly arguing that the papers spoke for themselves , they produced history that ...
Page 83
... historians such as Livy and Tacitus . 22 They tried to limit interpretation to efforts to clarify , and Defoe's " Observations " and expository sections conform to this closely . Beneath the spare prose , however , we can glimpse ...
... historians such as Livy and Tacitus . 22 They tried to limit interpretation to efforts to clarify , and Defoe's " Observations " and expository sections conform to this closely . Beneath the spare prose , however , we can glimpse ...
Page 109
... historians . Long before this time , most historians confined God to first causes and defended their concentration on second causes . Thomas Twyne , for example , tells us that " God worketh evermore by second causes unless He worketh ...
... historians . Long before this time , most historians confined God to first causes and defended their concentration on second causes . Thomas Twyne , for example , tells us that " God worketh evermore by second causes unless He worketh ...
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