Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint) epub
Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint) epub
Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint) by John G Sheppard
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Author: John G Sheppard
Number of Pages: 410 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330771860
Download Link: Notes on Thucydides Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Notes on Thucydides: Original and Compiled The present publication was suggested by Mr. Dawson Turner's Notes on Herodotus, and is intended to supply those wants, the existence of which the very large sale of that useful volume seems to indicate. It is perhaps well to state thus much lest the reader should misunderstand the character of the work, and be induced to estimate it by a standard which it does not affect to reach. It does not, for instance, deal in conjectural emendation, it does not contain a digest of various readings, or anything like an apparatus criticus for Thucydides, and it leaves untouched, or only briefly notices many matters, which a perfect edition of an historical writer ought to discuss. What it attempts is something more humble, hut at the same time, we trust, not altogether useless; for it endeavours to furnish University Students with that amount of information which their second examination may be regarded as likely to require. What this amount exactly is, under present circumstances, cannot very easily be estimated. The period usually devoted to the preparation for a University degree, when compared with the immensely increased requirements of the various examinations, will, to the student at any rate, appear but brief; and the arrangement of the relative claims of different authors upon his time, is perhaps one of the greatest difficulties with which he has to contend. If, for instance, he desires to raise himself to the standard of philosophical acquirement proposed by Mr. Pattison, and of historical knowledge by Mr. Froude, how is he to find leisure for that careful and critical study of the classical authors which Prof. Conington has so truly described as the only useful way of practising such study at all? We do not presume to answer a question which must in some measure perplex those much more competent to enter upon it than ourselves; but we venture to say that thus much at any rate is clear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint) by John G Sheppard
Author: John G Sheppard
Number of Pages: 410 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330771860
Download Link: Notes on Thucydides Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Notes on Thucydides: Original and Compiled The present publication was suggested by Mr. Dawson Turner's Notes on Herodotus, and is intended to supply those wants, the existence of which the very large sale of that useful volume seems to indicate. It is perhaps well to state thus much lest the reader should misunderstand the character of the work, and be induced to estimate it by a standard which it does not affect to reach. It does not, for instance, deal in conjectural emendation, it does not contain a digest of various readings, or anything like an apparatus criticus for Thucydides, and it leaves untouched, or only briefly notices many matters, which a perfect edition of an historical writer ought to discuss. What it attempts is something more humble, hut at the same time, we trust, not altogether useless; for it endeavours to furnish University Students with that amount of information which their second examination may be regarded as likely to require. What this amount exactly is, under present circumstances, cannot very easily be estimated. The period usually devoted to the preparation for a University degree, when compared with the immensely increased requirements of the various examinations, will, to the student at any rate, appear but brief; and the arrangement of the relative claims of different authors upon his time, is perhaps one of the greatest difficulties with which he has to contend. If, for instance, he desires to raise himself to the standard of philosophical acquirement proposed by Mr. Pattison, and of historical knowledge by Mr. Froude, how is he to find leisure for that careful and critical study of the classical authors which Prof. Conington has so truly described as the only useful way of practising such study at all? We do not presume to answer a question which must in some measure perplex those much more competent to enter upon it than ourselves; but we venture to say that thus much at any rate is clear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Read online Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint) Buy and read online Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint) Download and read Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint) for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Notes on Thucydides : Original and Compiled (Classic Reprint)