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And as a writer of personal or anecdotic history, let the reader turn to Voltaire's 'Siècle de Louis Quatorze,' in order to appreciate his extraordinary merit.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
Its sentiments are more broadly human, and the programme that Strauss has followed never loses itself in picturesque or anecdotic details, but is planned on expressive and noble lines.
From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock
Neither of the development of national life, nor of the clash of nations, did he really know anything that was not inessential and anecdotic.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
The style is agreeably anecdotic, and the numerous woodcuts are quaint and graphic.'—Globe.
From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts
Mount Dalton and its doings were an anecdotic mine, of which they had never explored a single "shaft."
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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