Although Boyle practised the methods which he expounded,.
Early in 1503 Machiavelli drew up for Soderini a speech, Discorso sull y provisione del danaro, in which the duty and necessity of liberal expenditure for the protection of the state were expounded upon principles of sound political philosophy.
The lecturer had a singular power of identifying himself for the time with the system which he expounded and the historical character he portrayed.
Meanwhile, in 1497, Aristotle was for the first time expounded in Greek at Padua.
This conception is the one handle by means of which the material of history, as at present expounded, can be dealt with, and anyone who breaks that handle off, as Buckle did, without finding some other method of treating historical material, merely deprives himself of the one possible way of dealing with it.