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 1      2, Int  |           might give themselves in histories, modern languages, books
 2      2, II   |            some are defaced. So of histories we may find three kinds:
 3      2, II   |          kinds: memorials, perfect histories, and antiquities; for memorials
 4      2, II   |           these kinds of unperfect histories I do assign no deficience,
 5      2, II   |           bodies of many excellent histories, and wrought them into base
 6      2, II   |       therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the
 7      2, II   |       purely and exactly true than histories of times, because they may
 8      2, II   |         and the state of Rome; the histories whereof occupying the middle
 9      2, II   |          have more ancient to them histories which may by one common
10      2, II   |         the world; and after them, histories which may be likewise called
11      2, II   | supererogation.~(8) But for modern histories, whereof there are some
12      2, III  |           diligent reader the best histories in themselves. For apophthegms,
13      2, XXII |           the poets and writers of histories are the best doctors of
14      2, XXIII|             namely, discourse upon histories or examples. For knowledge
15      2, XXIII|          as Machiavel handleth, so histories of lives is the most popular
16      2, XXIII|             namely, discourse upon histories or examples. For knowledge
17      2, XXIII|          as Machiavel handleth, so histories of lives is the most popular