But as it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend theusefulness of their examples a great way; the writer may be called in aid to spread their historyfarther, and to present the amiable pictures to those who have not the happiness of knowing theoriginals; and so, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a moreextensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.In this light I have always regarded those biographers ...
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But as it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend theusefulness of their examples a great way; the writer may be called in aid to spread their historyfarther, and to present the amiable pictures to those who have not the happiness of knowing theoriginals; and so, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a moreextensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.In this light I have always regarded those biographers who have recorded the actions of great andworthy persons of both sexes. Not to mention those antient writers which of late days are little read, being written in obsolete, and as they are generally thought, unintelligible languages, such asPlutarch, Nepos, and others which I heard of in my youth; our own language affords many ofexcellent use and instruction, finely calculated to sow the seeds of virtue in youth, and very easy tobe comprehended by persons of moderate capacity. Such as the history of John the Great, who, byhis brave and heroic actions against men of large and athletic bodies, obtained the gloriousappellation of the Giant-killer; that of an Earl of Warwick, whose Christian name was Guy; the livesof Argalus and Parthenia; and above all, the history of those seven worthy personages, theChampions of Christendom. In all these delight is mixed with instruction, and the reader is almost asmuch improved as entertained
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