Excerpt from The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Vol. 1
Upon these collections from Cicero, and the other ancients, I finished the first draught of my history, before I began to inquire after the modern writers, who had treated the same subject be fore me, either in whole or in part. I was unwilling to look into them sooner, lest they should fix any prejudice insensibly upon me, before I had formed a distinct judgment on the real state of the facts, as they appeared to me from their original records. For in writing history, as in travels, instead of transcribing the rev lations of those, who have trodden the same ground before us, we should exhibit a series of.
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