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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY

  1. [9] This seventh volume was published in 1844. But Daunou's celebrated Cours was delivered at the Collège de France in the years 1819-30.
  2. [10] The Italians of the Renaissance (Mylæns, Francesco Patrizzi, and others), and after them the writers of the last two centuries, ask what is the relation of history to dialectic and rhetoric; to how many laws the historical branch of literature is subject; whether it is right for the historian to relate treasons, acts of cowardice, crimes, disorders; whether history is entitled to use any style other than the sublime; and so on. The only books on Historic, published before the nineteenth century, which give evidence of any original effort to attack the real difficulties, are those of Lenglet de Fresnoy (Méthode pour étudier l'histoire, Paris, 1713), and of J. M. Chladenius (Allgemeine Geschichtswissenschaft, Leipzig, 1752). The work of Chladenius has been noticed by Bernheim (ibid. p. 166).
  3. [11] He has not always shown even good sense, for, in the Cours d'études historiques (vii. p. 105), where he treats of a work, De l'histoire, published in 1670 by Père Le Moyne, a feeble production, to say the least, bearing evident traces of senility, he expresses himself as follows: "I cannot adopt all the maxims and precepts contained in this treatise; but I believe that, after that of Lucian, it is the best we have yet seen, and I greatly doubt whether any of those whose acquaintance we have still to make has risen to the same height of philosophy and originality." Père H. Chérot has given a sounder estimate of the treatise De l'histoire in his Étude sur la vie et les œuvres du P. Le Moyne (Paris, 1887, 8vo), pp. 406 sqq.
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