...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman history, you will find that he excels...

...pleau: again and ¿i^oin. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : " Read over your compositions, and wherever...meet with a passage which you think is particularly tine, strike it out." Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or KuUopius ; and...

...crushed with his own weight, and buried under his owji ornaments. "Goldsmith's "abridgement," he added, "is "better than that of Lucius "Florus or Eutropius; and I will "venture to say that if you com"pare him with Vertot, in the "same places of the Roman His"tory, you will find that he excels...

...tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : " Read over your compositions, and wherever you mcet ith innumerable passages of the elassies. In this series of essays he exhibits a abridgment is better than that of Lucius Floras or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you...

...College said to one of his pupils: ' Read over your composition, and wherever you meet with a passant which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.'...or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels...

...please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever...is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you...

...you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels...

...very well received by the critics and by the public. "Goldsmith's abridgment," Johnson declared, " is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, yon will find that he excels...

...to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, "Read over your composition, and, wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out !" . . . Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he h«s to say in a pleasing manner....

...what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils, ' Read over your compositions, and, whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out !' Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you...