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The great Disadvantage our most celebrated Historians seem to labour under, is too long, and too tedious an Interruption, by the Insertion of Laws and Statutes, and Records in the Body of their Narration; at least, in making too particular and copious a Recital of them, whereas they had better be mentioned only in general, and thrown aside by themselves, as they commonly are, into an Appendix.
I will pass over the Historians of elder Date, as Daniel, Lord Verulam, Lord Herbert, and others, as too remote from the present Standard; my Lord Herbert comes the nearest; but
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