Of the S T U D Y OÍ H I S T 0 R Y.

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freely ; ClCERO, I íay, w?s abandoned by Octa-Vius, and maffacred by Antony. But let anyman read tins fragment of Arellius tuscus, andchuíe which he would wiíh to hâve been, theorator, or the triumvir ? “ Quoad humanum genusa incolume manserit, quamdiu usus literis, lionor" summas eloquentite pretium erit, quamdiu rerum“ natura aut fortuua steterit, aut memoria dura-“ verit, admirabile posteris v gebis ingenium, et" uno proscriptus seculo, proseiibes Antoaium“ omnibus.”

Thus a gain, as to events that íland recorded inhistory, vve íee them ail, we see them as they follovvedone another, or as they produced one another, cau-ses or elïects, immédiate or remote. We are caft bade,_ as it were, into former âges: welive with the men whoîived before us, and we inhabit countries that vvenèversaw. Place is enlarged, and time prolonged, inthis mannerj so that the man who applies himseìfearly to the study of history, m ay acquise in afew years, and before he sets his footabroad in theworld, not only a more extended knowledge ofmankind, but the expérience of more centuriestlian any of the patriarchs la w. The events weare witnesses of, in the course of the longest liie,appear to us very often original, unprepared, single,and un-relative, if I may use íuch an expreíïioufor want of a better in iingliíh ; iu French I wouldsay Isolés : they appear íuch very often, are cailedaccidents, and looked on as the effecis of chance ;a Word, by the way, vvhich is in constant ost,and bas frequently no determinate meauínr, We