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From Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy

CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES

"The very grammar was beatified for me by the objective temperament that ordered it, so much so that today I cannot see an ablative absolute or a passage of indirect discourse without happy tears springing to my eyes."

From The Figures in the Clock

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From Caesar: A Sketch, by James Anthony Froude

DARK COLORS

"Revolutionary periods are painted in history in colors so dark that the reader wonders how, amidst such scenes, peaceful human beings could continue to exist. He forgets that the historian describes only the abnormal incidents which broke the current of ordinary life, and that between the spasms of violence there were long quiet intervals when the ordinary occupations of men went on as usual."

From Chapter VIII