The modest critick, or, Remarks upon the most eminent historians, antient and modern with useful cautions and instructions as well for writing as reading history : wherein the sense of the greatest men on this subject is faithfully abridged / by one of the Society of the Port-Royal.

Title

The modest critick, or, Remarks upon the most eminent historians, antient and modern with useful cautions and instructions as well for writing as reading history : wherein the sense of the greatest men on this subject is faithfully abridged / by one of the Society of the Port-Royal.

Author

One of the Society of the Port-Royal.

Publication

London :: Printed for John Barnes ...,

1689.

Rights/Permissions

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.

Subject terms

History.

Link to this Item

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/a58060.0001.001 content_copy

Cite this Item

"The modest critick, or, Remarks upon the most eminent historians, antient and modern with useful cautions and instructions as well for writing as reading history : wherein the sense of the greatest men on this subject is faithfully abridged / by one of the Society of the Port-Royal." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58060.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• license
• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• TO THE READER.
• THE Modest Critick: OR, REMARKS Upon the most Eminent HISTORIANS.
  • introduction
  • I.How to write History.
  • II. What to write nobly is.
  • III. To write sen∣sibly.
  • IV. To write purely.
  • V. To write with Simplicity.
  • VI. The Matter in History.
  • VII. The Form.
  • VIII. The End of History.
  • IX. That Truth is the only mean through which History comes to its end: and how it is to be found.
  • X. The Style fit for History.
  • XI. Which is the properest for History, the Great or the flourish'd Style?
  • XII. The Narration.
  • XIII. Transitions.
  • XIV. The Circum∣stances of a Narration.
  • XV. The Motives.
  • XVI. Figures.
  • XVII. The Passions.
  • XVIII. The Descripti∣ons.
  • XIX. Speeches.
  • XX. The Characters of Persons.
  • XXI. The Reflections and Sentences.
  • XXII. Digressions.
  • XXIII. Eloquence fit in History.
  • XXIV. The other Orna∣ments which one may apply in History.
  • XXV. The Sentiments which ought to be allow'd in History.
  • XXVI. How the Genius of an Historian must be.
  • XXVII. The Historians Morality.
  • XXVIII. Judgment of Historians.