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"We are not publishing booksellers, sir; we are booksellers' agents," he said. "When we bring out a book ourselves, we only deal in well-known names; and we only take serious literature besides history and epitomes." "But my book is very serious.
They covered seventy-five years, and brought the narrative down to the beginning of the second Punic war. They close with the triumph of Æmilius, in 167 B.C., and the reduction of Macedonia to a Roman province. We have epitomes of all the lost books, with the exception of ten; but these are so scanty as to amount to little more than tables of contents.
It is the general belief, that in a colony we are altogether out of the world; but it has always appeared to me, that within the narrow confines of one of those epitomes of a kingdom we may see more of the world than when standing on the outer edge of society in England.
While the historians were perfecting their histories certain prophets also were beginning to commit their sermons to writing. The oldest recorded address in the Old Testament is probably that of Amos at Bethel. Sometimes complete sermons of the prophets are preserved, but more often we seem to have only extracts and epitomes.
But Gibbon's anticipation was one of the frequent cases where the same idea has occurred to a number of men of genius, as doubtless Captain Mahan was not aware of this sentence any more than he was of Bacon's and Raleigh's epitomes of the theme which he has so originally and brilliantly treated. No modern historian has been the subject of so much critical comment as Gibbon.
Well, of that work I have tried to prove it to you a thousand times Jesus of Nazareth has become to us, by the evolution of circumstance, the most moving, the most efficacious of all types and epitomes. We have made our protest we are daily making it in the face of society, against the fictions and overgrowths which at the present time are excluding him more and more from human love.
We are not merely the heirs but the epitomes of the ages.
They are not all sermons and are of varying character, antiquity and interest, the reason why they are grouped together being simply their length . In some of them we may fancy that we catch an echo of Gotama's own words, but in others the legendary character is very marked. Thus the Mahâsamaya and Aṭânâṭiya suttas are epitomes of popular mythology tacked on to the history of the Buddha.
As in the case of the Mishnah, so, also, the Talmud has six principal divisions: these will be followed in the subsequent epitomes and need not, therefore, be given here. There are two versions or forms of the Talmud: 1. When we speak of the Talmud it is that of Babylon which is always meant. Its language is Eastern Aramaic. 2.
It was called Historiae Philippicae, and was apparently arranged according to nations; it began with Ninus, the Nimrod of classical legend, and was brought down to about 9 A.D. We know the work from the epitomes of the books and from Justin's abridgment, which is similar to that of Florus on Livy. Who Justin was, and where he lived, are not clearly ascertained.
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