See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS DE See also:BEAUFORT (d. 1795)
, See also:French historian, of whose See also:life little is known
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In 1738 he published at See also:Utrecht a
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Dissertation sur l'incertitude See also:des cinq premiers siecles de l'histoire romaine, in which he showed what untrustworthy guides even the his-torians of highest repute, such as See also:Livy and See also:Dionysius of See also:Halicarnassus, were for that See also:period, and pointed out by what methods and by the aid of what documents truly scientific bases might be given to its See also:history
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This was an ingenious plea, bold for its See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, against traditional history such as See also:Rollin was See also:writing at that very moment
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A See also:German, See also:Christopher Saxius, endeavoured to refute it in a See also:series of articles published in vols. i.-iii. of the Miscellanea Liviensia
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See also:Beaufort replied by some brief and ironical Remarques in the appendix to the second edition of his Dissertation (1750)
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Beaufort also wrote an Histoire de Cesar Germanicus (See also:Leyden, 1761), and La Republique romaine, ou See also:plan See also:general de l'ancien gouvernement de See also:Rome (The See also:Hague, 1766, 2 vols. See also:quarto)
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Though not a See also:scholar of the first See also:rank, Beaufort has at least the merit of having been a See also:pioneer in raising the question, afterwards elaborated by See also:Niebuhr, as to the credibility of See also:early See also:Roman history
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