...war on each other." Rawlinson thus : — " These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving...to put on record what were their grounds of feud." Each of these translations represents the sense of the original, without addition or subtraction, but...

...subject and object, he commences his history : These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving...to put on record what were their grounds of feud. Contrast with the foregoing the elaborate and stately periods in which Macaulay sets forth his aim...

...Father of History begins his great work. " These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving...from decay the remembrance of what men have done." In the preparation of the following pages I have constantly kept in mind the words of the great traveler...

...entertaining narrative. He begins his work thus: "These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving...what men have done, and of preventing the great and marvelous actions of the Greeks and the barbarians from losing their due meed of glory, and withal...

...preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and marvelous actions of the Greeks and the barbarians from losing...meed of glory, and withal to put on record what were the grounds of their hostility." In Herodotus, history, owing to the inquiry made into the causes of...

...the first words of his great work, said : " These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving...the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory." When Moses was about leaving the children of Israel, to go to a better land than that of Canaan, he...

...subject and object, he commences his history: These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving...to put on record what were their grounds of feud. " Contrast with the foregoing the elaborate and stately periods in which Macaulay sets forth his aim...

...seriously, and yet he loves, too, to tell the story for its own sake. He writes his history, he tells us, "in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the...barbarians from losing their due meed of glory." And when, in the course of his narrative, a good story occurs to him, he tells it, even if he has to add...

...seriously, and yet he loves, too, to tell the story f its own sake. He writes his history, he tells us, " in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, anc1 of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the barbarians from losing their...

...introduces his subject in these words: These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which be publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from...to put on record what were their grounds of feud. His own native city was one of the early victims of this feud, and his youthful imagination must have...