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CONTENTS.
| Of History, | Pag. 173. | |
| The Difficulties of writing History, | 174. | |
| The Abilities of an Historian, | 175. | |
| The Historical Style, | 178. | |
| Standards of History among the Greeks and Romans, | 180. | |
| Herodotus and Thucydides, | 181. | |
| Salust and Livy, | 183. | |
| Salust compared with Thucydides, and how far he agreeth with him, | 184. | |
| Salust concise, but clear, | ibid. | |
| His Style vindicated, | 186. | |
| Livy his Character, | 187. | |
| Resembled to Herodotus and Thucydides, | 189. | |
| Compared with Salust, | 190. | |
| Salust clearer than Livy, | 191. | |
| The Praise of Livy, | 193. | |
| History and Oratory compared, | 195. | |
| Greater Abilities required in an Historian, than an Orator, | ibid. | |
| Of Modern History, and a general Remark on our Historians, | 196. | |
| Lord Bacon censured, | 198. | |
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