Excerpt from A History of the United States and Its People, From Their Earliest Records to the Present Time, Vol. 2 of 15

I felt sure that the general public would approve an avoidance of abysmal notes, overladen with trivial details, and told with such portentous long-windedness that only professional students, examinees, schoolmasters and their pupils really master them.

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