Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

or another circumstance uncommonly laborious. The resources I had at hand, even though they were of such a nature that one could not without reason promise oneself the resolution of occurring doubts, were often so insufficient to resolve them that I could clearly see that their authors were oppressed by the very same lack of sound information and primary sources that I was feeling. I did not let a long and arduous search discourage me: however, the time and effort expended were often not rewarded.