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" Civil History, it is of three kinds ; not unfitly to be compared
with three kinds of pictures or images we see ; some are unfinished,
some are perfect, and some are defaced. So of histories we may
find three kinds, Memorials, Perfect Histories, and Antiquities ;
for Memorials are history unfinished, or the first or rough draughts
of history; and Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants
of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Histories make men wise, poets witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to
contend;  ^'Abeunt studia in mores."...........................Lord Bacon.
 

NEW YOEK:
WILLIAM   aOWANI