Essays, or discourses, vol. 3 (of 4) (Registro nro. 116953)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | PQ |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1676-1764 |
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| Title | Essays, or discourses, vol. 3 (of 4) |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-06-05 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Josep Cols Canals and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
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| Summary, etc. | "Essays, or discourses, vol. 3 (of 4) : Selected from the works of Feyjoo, and…." by Feyjoo is a collection of essays written in the late 18th century. This volume turns a sharp, skeptical eye on how history is written, weighing style against substance and probing the biases that distort the record. Its likely focus is on the art and ethics of historiography—how truth is pursued, how it goes astray, and how celebrated anecdotes harden into “common errors.” At the start of this volume, the essayist argues that an excellent historian is rarer than a great poet, then surveys the celebrated ancients to show how even the best—Herodotus, Xenophon, Livy, Sallust, Tacitus—have been faulted for order, invention, speeches, and bias. He uses Quintus Curtius (as dismantled by Le Clerc) to illustrate how admired histories can be riddled with errors, then details the perils of style (affectation, false sublimity, uneven elevation), the difficulty of selecting essentials without confusion, and the constant tug‑of‑war between chronology and clear narrative. The core problem is truth: proximity to power, national and religious partisanship, hope and fear, personal grudges, and the temptation to embellish or to please the reader all warp accounts; forged chronicles and thin reading compound the damage. The essay closes the opening with a rapid catalogue of “popular errors” and doubtful tales—Helen never at Troy, Virgil’s Dido anachronism, the Cretan labyrinth likely a myth, Archimedes’ and Proclus’s burning mirrors unattested by reliable sources, French royal legends (Pharamond, Salic Law, holy oil and fleurs‑de‑lis) questioned, Belisarius’s beggary likely apocryphal, and Joan of Arc’s “inspiration” reframed as political stagecraft—modeling how to sift famous stories with critical restraint. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
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| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: H. Payne, 1780 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Spanish essays -- Translations into English |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Brett, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | -1785 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/essaysordiscours03feij">https://archive.org/details/essaysordiscours03feij</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76228">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76228</a> |
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