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Excerpt from The Works of Sallust: Translated Into English, With Political Discourses Upon That Author; To Which Is Added, a Translation of Cicero's Four Orations Against Catiline His Language, upon the Whole, is plealing and pathetic, his Narration natural, his Speeches firong and perfuafive, his Defcrip tions exact and beautiful, the Reections curious and poignant, the Characters firiking and infl; his own, that of a noble and infiruétive Hiiiorian, a great \vriter, not without great Faults in his Writings; I do nor mean only his Flattery and Partiality to Czofor 3 his Prejudices to Cicero are apparent and unpardonable. He fpeaks very fparingly of that great Man, by Right the Hero of his Hiliory: He treats him with the Contempt of a few civil Epithets, and fays of him iuli what he muii fay, in order to ex plain the Progrefs and Mine of the Confpiraey. Though he is apt to go out of his Way, in order to difplay his own lively Talents in drawing Charaé'cers, he exercifes none of them upon that of Cicero, where there was fuch a loud Call for it, fo much Scope for the mofi brilliant Colours, and fuch a Crime in omitting them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.