A new method of studying history : recommending more easy and complete instructions for improvements in that science than any hitherto extant : with the whole apparatus necessary to form a perfect historian
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A new method of studying history : recommending more easy and complete instructions for improvements in that science than any hitherto extant : with the whole apparatus necessary to form a perfect historian
Printed for W. Burton in St. John's-Lane, near Hicks's-Hall , Sold by J. Batley : C. Rivington : W. Meadows : L. Gilliver : J. Ayshford : J. Wilcox, 1728
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New method of studying history : recommending more easy and complete instructions for improvements in that science than any hitherto extant : with the whole apparatus necessary to form a perfect historian : in two volumes
Rawlinson on study
Methode pour etudier l'histoire
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"Since translated into Italian, with considerable additions. The whole made English, with variety of improvements and corrections, and a copious index of authors. Also, a dissertation by Count Scipio Maffei of Verona, concerning the use of inscriptions and medals, by way of parallel"--Added t.p
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Pagination: vol. 1: [8], xxii, [23]-360, [8] p. ; vol. 2: [2], 550, [50] p
Signatures: vol. 1: π[4] A-Z[8] ; vol. 2: [A][1] B-2N[8] 2O-2S[4]
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Includes index
Error in paging: p. 298 (vol. 1) incorrectly numbered 98
Contents of Works
- Vol. 1. 1. The sciences preparatory to the study of history, viz. Geography, chronology, &c. the end proposed thereby, and the method to be observed in reading it
- 2. Of history, sacred and prophane, including the several parts of the world, according to their proper divisions
- 3. Of the histories of sovereign families, of arts and sciences, religious and military orders, &c. the character of a good and bad historian, and rules for the judging of historical facts
- Vol. 2. A catalogue of the chief historians of all nations, their best editions, and characters of their writings, with considerable additions and corrections