Excerpt from Letters on the Study and Use of History, Vol. 1
I good deal of attention, the fubjeét on which you command me to communi cate my thoughts to you: and I praétifed in thofe days, as much as bufinefs and pleafure allowed me time to do, the rules that feemed to me necefl'ary to be obferved in the fiudy of hifiory. They were very different from thofe which Writers on the fame fubjeé't have recom mended, and which are commonly prae volq I. B tieed.
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