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. chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond._

I shall be content if those shall pronounce my History useful who desire to give a view of events as they did really happen, and as they are very likely, in accordance with human nature, to repeat themselves at some future time,--if not exactly the same, yet very similar.--THUCYDIDES: _Historia, i. 2, 2._

What is this day supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.--_Ibid., Annals, xi. 24._

[726-2] Agesilaus being exhorted to hear one that imitated the voice of a nightingale, "I have often," said he, "heard nightingales themselves."--_Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders._ (_Agesilaus._)

[726-3] See Horace, page 706.

[726-4] See Garrick, page 387.

He [Tiberius] upbraided Macro in no obscure and indirect terms "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising."--TACITUS: _Annals,