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PROPOSALS
By EDW.ARD Earle,
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION,
THE WORKS
CORNELIUS TACITUS

CORNELIUS IACHUS
Nm Essay on his Life and Genius; Votes
Supplements, &c.
BY ARTHUR MURPHY ESQ.
The first american, from the last London
Edition.
With the Authors last corrections.
AS a brief recommend itfon of the above
works 20 those 20 waon they may not be al
ready known, the fa!io.iAs notice OF them
Is cooled fom tie London Review OF the
time when they were first Published,
6, Though," says this ReyieS, I" 1t be
with tho translation of 'iaciius that We rave
no4 to tio, not with the character OF that orr
giisal and great historiSa h,u1se4' 1t wooia DC
fjiE6e;,Jt, perhaps ,nn3tGrsl AID ihdccor0us,
10 pas by the prs-eat opportunity Of recCS.
nising the merit OF ta.t sublime genus, and
i5iainr in The gerscrai voice OF applause ana
admiratioa4 Corfseilas I&eitns' sy rare
felicity of circumstances, uni!cd III hinstI
all tt.as,. eisti3as, Qu1!lUcs, AMI accomplish
ments, thst are requisite to form great ms
tarisny: ic was Of senatorial rank, anu In
that order hi, lilly Distinguished RE ENJOY
Cd thr- f.vor cf The princes and severelgns OF
the civilized wori.i, anu held civil ofhces OF
the highest dignity and Importance he pos
sessea a native p90oity s elevation OF mind !;
and these nozzle Qualities we're helghehea
and conErsed bY an haatuai coAVersahcy
with tie history of the Roman republic, and
an education Ia the p, inciples OF tie suhhm-
est philosophy. The proioundness OF MS re-
aectioos, the precision OF MS dlction his
elegant and energetic breyity, and somethlng
remarkably picturesqHe and dramatic IN MS
manner, conspire, with the dignity and I'M
partance of MS subjects, to clothe MS WORKS
with never filling bloom, and render his
fame immortal He records the actions the
.onnsels, tho secret motives of The great &C
tors IN the ereaIes, political drama that vas
.,er sxb;bited on the world and the Histo-
~ or Tacirus, as is we'll observed by his &C
comni;sbed translsto, AMI critic, IS fhIo-
sophy teaching by example
The contents OF these volumes seem natu"
r,Ilv TO admit OF the following division =
/. dedication to the right honorable I'd
n,nna burke; all Essay on the lite ard genl-
nc of Tacitus: the annals OF Iacitus, with
,nnD,sme0ts aud an appendix; genealog,-
n.1 tab}e. win an ibdcx OF the Caesars -
no,Ae on the annals and appendix, and maps
of the ancient world as kno|n 70 the no
,,.n.. ,nd OF Asia. 2. The history o. Taci-
tus, With an appendix, and notes 70 the MS
tow and appcpd'x i; and maps o. the city OF
Jerusalem, and OF Italy 8. ] he celebrated
and valuable Treaiise on the manners'o the
Cermans, with notes and map OF ancient
Ce,ro,ny: aud the life of Agrioola, with
rntos, and a geographical table OF the places,
r;,ars Sc mentioned in these volumes -
r. tbese authentic works of facilus is added
6 tho dialorue concerning 0rstory, OF which
80 NJ MURRAY in note has Justly remark
81 The co mn cntators are much divided In
,h.;r onipiorS about the real author Ihis
.,.o.L tnev ell agree, is masterpiece IN the
L;,d. written with taste ard judgment; en-
tor,aininy. profoand and elegant. Hut whe-
-, i 70 beascribedto Tsci.us, Qulnctilian,
ooy other persen whom they cannot name,
estianupon which they have exhausted
- ~ of learning Mr.. Murphy, after CIV
- on account of the principal arguments
tro and con, says Ia conciuslon' aienougn se
seems to lean to the opinloa that 1t Is the
,,roduc,ioa of Tacitus: The dispute is or no
in,no,tapce for, as Lipslas says, whether
we give The dialogue to ouiacui'ah OF or 20 d.
-. No inconvenience can arise. Whoever
MS ,be suthof, it is performance OF I'M
common beauty rh;.
onthor in pleasing and proper style sven
Eca..bed not a little of his manner; IN ofoer
Iash;.b, in 50 long work, 1t was neces-
Of the s' oos. s'" sns .a 1 ,s.
49,. ,hew THAI he is intimately co'iyerssnt
,1;,h Roman antiquity, and with literature in
1911 msrs He views the objects that pass be-
ss.s b;ro WIN tue e,e OF a critic, moraiist,
ioss -: sS,;t;ci.n ana in particular he makes
; ;s comparisons between the si'ua,
tions aad characters OF different A"'ish' anu
,no ,,b tr,oes and nations"
H'e,'S CONDITIONS.
r,o voyts OF Tacitus shall be put to
I, Inc a W. - = sufii lent number of SUD
sss ssIs shall be oo. a % Jus, as',y new !, nc.
80 q har my