. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. picsis an error for Tusculans, since no rocnUon is made of the latter in the fliWi©-lh?f]ue Fran^aii*. ^ CHAPTER XVIII. The Historian. Large desires with most uncertain issues. Longfellow. ISTORICAL studieshad at all times at-tracted Dolet, and theopus magnum to thecomposition of whichhe proposed to de-vote some years ofhis life, and fromwhich he hoped
. The coal trade: a compendium of valuable information relative to coal production, prices, transportation etc., at home and abroad, with many facts worthy of preservation for future reference; corrected to the latest dates [for 1876 and 1877]. picsis an error for Tusculans, since no rocnUon is made of the latter in the fliWi©-lh?f]ue Fran^aii*. ^ CHAPTER XVIII. The Historian. Large desires with most uncertain issues. Longfellow. ISTORICAL studieshad at all times at-tracted Dolet, and theopus magnum to thecomposition of whichhe proposed to de-vote some years ofhis life, and fromwhich he hoped toacquire an immor-i tality of fame, was a! history of his owntimes,—a work which we cannot but regret that the per-secutions and imprisonments which occupied so large apart of the last five years of his life prevented him fromaccomplishing. The reign of Francis the First, one of the most brilliantas well as interesting and important in French history, isstrangely deficient in contemporary historians. Philippede Comines had been not merely an annalist or a chron-icler, but a philosophical historian desirous of arriving atthe truth among conflicting statements, of placing his factswith a due regard to perspective and to their relative. ETIENNE DO LET. ^^7^ importance, and not only of ascertaining the facts them-selves, but of tracing their causes, their connection, andtheir consequences, and capable of drawing just conclusionsfrom the facts he collected. If we admit that he wrotewith a purpose, and was not always, perhaps not generallyimpartial when the acts and interests of Louis XI wereconcerned, we only ascribe to him faults which are sharedby the most eminent of the historical writers of the nine-teenth century. Ikit his immediate successors were asinferior to him as his predecessors had been. From thepoint where his memoirs end (149H) to 1546 where de Thoucommences the history of his own time, France is againreduced to chroniclers and annalists. Paulus yEmilius,Beaucaire
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