Excerpt from The History of Greece, Vol. 1 of 8
In the succeeding Memoir the reader will find satisfactory information respecting the nature of the materials left by Mr. Mitford, which the editor of these volumes had to arrange and collate. In addition to the performance of that duty, a self-imposed task was undertaken, of which some explanation seems necessary. The Fasti Hellenici of Mr. Clinton, acknowledged both by English and Continental scholars, particularly the Germans, as of the highest authority, seemed too important a book in connexion with Grecian history to be neglected by any reader of Mr. Mitford"s work. On many occasions he is found at variance with Mr. Mitford, on some important points he directly controverts him, and in his Introduction he alleges against him a general negligence of dates, while he admits the successful application of his talents to matters requiring higher endowments. While Mr. Mitford"s "attention," he says, "is engaged with political and philosophical speculations, and with the facts themselves, (in illustrating which he is far superior to any former writer,) he has not always been diligent in the dates of his history."
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