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Taka Posted 15 years ago
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Latter
If I post the entire text, it's going to be very long. So allow me to post the URL here:
http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/on-history/
About this sentence, which is in the 4th paragraph:
It is these latter accounts, though, that give the freshest and most vivid impression of the past, however much spin and bias they contain.
then what are the former accounts?
http://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/on-history/
About this sentence, which is in the 4th paragraph:
It is these latter accounts, though, that give the freshest and most vivid impression of the past, however much spin and bias they contain.
then what are the former accounts?
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The former accounts are the "more mundane factual records, such as bills of lading, ledger entries, lists of names, account books, legal documents and the like". CB
- The former accounts are the "more mundane factual records, such as bills of lading, ledger entries, lists of names, account books, legal documents and the like".
- CB
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The former accounts are the "more mundane factual records, such as bills of lading, ledger entries, lists of names, account books, legal documents and the like".
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Cool BreezeThe former accounts are the "more mundane factual records, such as bills of lading, ledger entries, lists of names, account books, legal documents and the like".Aren't those the latter, considering the development of the paragraph?
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TakaAren't those the latter, considering the development of the paragraph?No. These are "the latter": ... a far cry from, say, diary entries and personal letters, reportage and memoir.
These more personal and consequently also less reliable accounts were mentioned earlier in greater detail, but they are re-
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Cool BreezeNo. These are "the latter": ... a far cry from, say, diary entries and personal letters, reportage and memoir.
These more personal and consequently also less reliable accounts were mentioned earlier in greater detail, but they are re-mentioned after the former accounts at the very end of the paragraph just before the author uses the term "latter accounts".
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