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Rh never lay him out of Your Hands without Impatience to resume him. We may resemble him to Herodotus, in the Manner of his Diction; but he is more like Thucydides, in the Grandeur and Majesty of Expression; and if we observe the Multitude of Clauses in the Length of his Periods, perhaps Thucydides himself is not more crowded; only the Length of the Periods is apt to deceive us; and great Men among the Ancients, as well as Moderns, have been induced to think this Writer was copious, because his Sentences were long. Copious he is indeed, and forcible in his Descriptions; not lavish in the Rh