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Show I WON PRAISE FOR HISTORY '21fl Work of Charles Rolllri, Famous 1 B Frenchman, Waa for Many Years :vl a Standard Book. H Ko Icar.i n personage than Voltaire H & raises Me work known as "Itollln'a Ancient Hlstery," which, tltough now H obsolete, noil for years In Its English translation the standard work en the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, H tind other ancient nation;, 5 Voltaire, while praising the work lilgUly, alleges that It would have been H batter If the author had bora more of H a philosopher, able to distinguish bet-H bet-H tor the foUo from the true. Incredlblo i'V. from the probable, and to sacrifice the .JjLLelcss. Notwithstanding, he eald It HJBKIk tbtt Mt MnPllatlon la any Ian- BMRafic,' because compilers are seldeoy loqocnt, nnd Itollln was. I Charles Itollln w a Frenchman .nod he died at Paris, the place of hit Mrth, on Bcpt. 14, 1741, This relebrnt-H relebrnt-H ml man rose from poverty and obscurl- ty to u position of the greatest dignity. I Ha was (ho ton of a cutler, yet at the H age of S3 he woe made rector of the H University of Purls, which office ho H -adorned by the sweetness of hie char- IH "nctcr, his learning, probity and inoilcr- Hj fltlon. IH Until fifty year ago his history waa H n stock book, when It beran te be neg- lee ted ea account ef the many dls- H covcries giving a tor cast te ear M Vnowledge ef ancient hlstery. Cklca- So Journal. |