...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...have the inconveniences which it threatens been more. 1 Mr. Laing. successfully avoided. In the former respect his merit is great, but in the latter, he...

...their effects on the manners and condition of mankind, and to blend the lights of philosophy with the appropriate beauties of historical composition. In...respect his merit is great, but in the latter, he may be safely proposed as a pattern for imitation. Nor does the beauty of his narrative consist only...

...province of the historian has been enlarged and dignified, the difficulty of his task has encreased in the same proportion; reduced, as he must frequently...narrative together, of sacrificing clearness to brevity." 14 In Stewart's view, Robertson's success in retrieving the traditional excellence of narrative in...