Cæsar´s Commentaries on the Gallic War
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Excerpt from Cæsar´s Commentaries on the Gallic War: And the First Book of the Greek Paraphrase; With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Plans of Battles, Sieges, Etc;, And Historical, Geographical, and Archæological Indexes Dr. B. What odd-looking volume is that over which you are poring so attentively, Henry Arlington? Something very rare and curious, I suppose, to draw you off from our Oriel College election. H. A very singular book, indeed, Dr. Barton, which I discovered yesterday, by mere accident, among the treasures of the Bodleian. It is Berger´s treatise "De naturali pulchritudine Orationis," in which the Commentaries of Julius Cæsar arc lauded to the skies, as a model of all that is excellent in writing. Dr. B. I know the work well, and admire your patience in cultivating an acquaintance with it. Were I troubled with sleepless nights, I would certainly take to reading Berger, after retiring to my couch, in the full expectation of speedy and lasting relief. H. I think you are too hard upon him, doctor. Amid a mass of heavy reading, I have found several things to arrest my attention and reward me for the labour expended upon his work. You surely do not regard Cæsar´s Latinity as of inferior merit. Dr. B. Quite the reverse, Henry. No writer equals Cæsar in elegant simplicity, and in that transparent clearness of style which forms the great charm of historical narrative. Lord Bacon, whom Berger not unaptly calls "Britannorum Socrates," has well expressed his wonder, that a mind rendered so "turbid" by ambition as Caesar´s was, should express itself in writing with so much calmness and serenity. My only objection is, that Berger pushes his theory much farther than either you or I will concede, when he undertakes to find, in the Commentaries of Cæsar, all the excellences of composition that arc noted and praised, in a later age, in the treatise of Longinus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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