LITERATURE OF ANCIENT GREECE. 513 at a later period, a theoretical treatise, or riyi], embodying the prin- ciples which he had followed in his teaching, and which he had improved and worked out by practice. This work was much esteemed by ancient rhetoricians, and is often quoted. * We have now brought the history of Attic prose, through a series of statesmen, orators, and rhetoricians, from Pericles to Isocrates : we have not yet arrived at its highest point ; but still this was a remarkable eminence. We now go back again for a few years, in order to com- mence from a new beginning, not only of Attic training, but of the human mind in general, and to take under consideration a series of remarkable appearances springing from that source.
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Author proceeded to Greece for the purpose of making personal researches, but where, unfortunately, death brought his labours to a close. The Society have therefore determined to close the volume here ; and to leave to the writer of the subsequent portion of the History of Greek Literature a perfect freedom as to the form and manner in which he shall undertake the task. INDEX. 2 L
