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One particular there is still remaining behind of what I at first
proposed to speak to, and that is, to demonstrate that those calumnies
and reproaches which some have thrown upon our nation, are lies, and to
make use of those writers' own testimonies against themselves; and that
in general this self-contradiction hath happened to many other authors
by reason of their ill-will to some people, I conclude, is not unknown
to such as have read histories with sufficient care;for some of them have
endeavored to disgrace the nobility of certain nations, and of some of
the most glorious cities, and have cast reproaches upon certain forms of
government. Thus hath Theopompus abused the city of Athens, Polycrates
that of Lacedemon, as hath he hat wrote the Tripoliticus (for he is not
Theopompus, as is supposed bys ome) done by the city of Thebes. Timeils
also hath greatly abused the foregoing people and others also; and this
ill-treatment they use chiefly when they have a contest with men of the
greatest reputation; some out of envy and malice, and others as supposing
that by this foolish talking of theirs they may be thought worthy of being
remembered themselves; and indeed they do by no means fail of their hopes,
with regard to the foolish part of mankind, but men of sober judgment still
condemn them of great malignity.
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