"The best way therefore is, whilst the mind of the historian is on horseback, for his style to walk on foot, and take hold of the rein, that it may not be left behind."
Instructions for Writing History [from The Works of Lucian]
3 entries in ESTC (1780, 1781). See also <u>Select Dialogues</u> (1785). Translations of select dialogues date from 1634.<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Lucian, from the Greek, by Thomas Francklin, D. D. Some Time Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1780). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T112683">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=OaLc_9I-gvAC">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;
