Historiography - Early works to 1800
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A critical and philosophical enquiry into the causes of prodigies and miracles, as related by historians . With an essay towards restoring a method and purity in history. In Which, The Characters of the most celebrated Writers of every Age, and of the several Stages and Species of History, are occasionally criticized and explained. In two parts.
Warburton, William 1698-1779.Date: 1727- E-books
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Loukianou Samosate�os p�os dei historian syngraphein . Luciani Samosatensis Quomodo historia conscribenda sit. Edidit ac notis illustravit Franciscus Riollay ..
Lucian of SamosataDate: 1776- E-books
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Essays; read to a literary society at their weekly meetings, within the college, at Glasgow. I. On the influence of Philosophy upon the Fine Arts. II. On the Composition of the Picture described in the Dialogue of Cebes. III. On Historical Composition.
Moor, James 1712-1779.Date: 1759- E-books
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Two dialogues , concerning the manner of writing history. From the French of Abb�e de Mably.
Mably, abb�e de, 1709-1785.Date: 1783- E-books
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An essay on the manner of writing history
Date: 1746