Excerpt from The Premier and the Painter: A Fantastic Romance By classifying histories according to their respective methods, three species are obtained: the first is composed of those works which contain all the essentials of Historiography except the facts; the second comprises all works in which historical facts are exhibited as containing a philosophy of their own, or proving that of the writer; the third consists of those works which present Truth naked and unashamed.

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