THE Palate of this Age, it seems, grows very exqui∣site; for in all things, for the most part, we attain a good measure of Sense: We e∣steem that which is Real and So∣lid, and we can hardly now en∣dure any thing that is false or fri∣volous. This is the Sentiment of all reasonable People, who make the soundest part of them that pre∣tend to judge, thô it be perhaps the lesser in number.
The modest critick, or, Remarks upon the most eminent historians, antient and modern with useful cautions and instructions as well for writing as reading history : wherein the sense of the greatest men on this subject is faithfully abridged / by one of the Society of the Port-Royal.
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- The modest critick, or, Remarks upon the most eminent historians, antient and modern with useful cautions and instructions as well for writing as reading history : wherein the sense of the greatest men on this subject is faithfully abridged / by one of the Society of the Port-Royal.
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- 1689.
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But nothing shews that ripe∣ness of Judgment better than the Disgust People have now for Ro∣mances, and any other thing that looks like them; so that this love of Truth and Reason, being a dis∣position to love History, let us make use of so favourable a Conjun∣cture, to serve the Publick accor∣ding to their Genius; let us be∣stow our pains in those things that can make us perfect in that Art; and comprehending the excellence thereof, let us make our selves ac∣quainted with those things that are needful to attain it: For, what Spirit is not requisite for it? and what can we imagine finer than b History, which can do justice to Virtue, by perpetuating the Memo∣ry of Noble Actions? This is, in my mind, what can contribute to the Perfection, of which this kind of writing is capable, which will carry it above all other (if that love for Sense which establishes it self can but continue) in despite of the variety of tasts, which fan∣cy and vanity endeavour from time
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to time to introduce thrô false Ide∣a's of fine wit.
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Pulchrum imprimis vide∣tur, non pati occidere, qui∣bus aeternitas debeatur. Pl. l. 5. Epist.