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The Wealth of Nations and Historical Facts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

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Though beauty of diction, harmony of periods, and acuteness and singularity of sentiment, may captivate the reader, yet there are other qualifications essentially necessary…. Fidelity, accuracy and impartiality are also requisite (Joseph Towers, Observations on Mr. Hume's History (1778)).

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