The House Of Austria In The Thirty Years War Two Lectures With Notes And Illustrations Primary Source Edition

Author : Adolphus William Ward
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ISBN 13 : 9781331044215
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War written by Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War: Two Lectures, With Notes and Ill Illustrations It is well that princes should read history; but it is not well that history should be written for them by their servants. In the century and the country of the Thirty Years War, the historical author, even if his identity was not lost among the crowd of menial existences of the courts, well knew for what and for whom he plied his pen. Even to those whose own tastes or beliefs induced them to contribute their aid towards collecting or confusing the memorials of the times, there seemed to have been given, together with their semi-official task, a semi-official conscience, - which conducted their blindfold march along a tortuous path, but to no doubtful goal. As a result they have left to posterity much, which (in Bolingbroke's phrase) it may neglect entirely, not only without detriment, but with advantage. Since those days of abasement, great and salutary. changes have supervened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.