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Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern History (Classic Reprint) by : John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History (Classic Reprint) written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Modern History The Lectures on Modern History were delivered by Lord Acton in his ordinary course as Professor in the academical years 1899-1900 and 1900-01. The Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, here reprinted, was delivered on June II, 1895. The document printed in Appendix I. Is of great interest, as exhibiting the ideals of Lord Acton as a student and the aims of the under taking which he planned and still bears his name. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern History, From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution (Classic Reprint) by : William Smyth
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History, From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution (Classic Reprint) written by William Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Modern History, From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution Nothing so much embarrasses a student, who is beginning the study of history, as the difficulty he finds in selecting the best authors, ascertaining their intrinsic and relative merits, and in marking out for himself the most profitable course of reading. He is bewildered amidst a multitude of books, and perpetually at a loss, as he proceeds, to determine the comparative importance of periods, events, and characters. If he seeks a guide, he is either met by a dry catalogue of authors, arranged with little discrimination, or referred to abridgments and abstracts, as destitute of the soul and substance of history, properly so called, as a skeleton is of the spirit and proportions of a living man. His time is thus lost and his patience exhausted, while he makes scarcely any progress in those acquisitions which it is the design of history to communicate, and by which the mind should be expanded and strengthened at the same time that it is enriched with facts. Professor Smyth has undertaken to remove these obstacles; and, if we may judge by the manner in which his task has been executed in these volumes, it is safe to say that it could not have fallen into more skilful or experienced hands. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern History, Vol. 1 of 2 by : William Smyth
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History, Vol. 1 of 2 written by William Smyth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Modern History, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution Asm'a de Mably - Robertson's Introduction to Charles V. And three Notes, 38, 39, 40 - Parts of Philip de Commines, for Burgundy and Life of Louis XI. - notices taken by Hume of the French history. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern History, Vol. 2 of 2 by : William Smyth
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History, Vol. 2 of 2 written by William Smyth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Modern History, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the Close of the American Revolution In the extracts furnished by, Mr. Macpherson, little cem ment can be found on what are known to be the most critical points of the history of the times; and on the whole, as far as the reign of Charles is concerned, the reader is extremely disappointed in the matter and in the manner, in the author and in the editor of this journal or narrative, as exhibited by Macpherson. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) by : George Miller
Download or read book Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by George Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 3 The separate publication of the first and second volumes of these lectures has been productive, among some inconveniences, at least of this advantage, that the author has 'in the progress of his work enjoyed an op portunity of discovering the misconceptions to which his plan was exposed. Of this he pmposes now to avail himself, by stating more distinctly the principles on which it has been constructed: these he thought he had sufficiently explained, but he now be lieves that he had not said enough to pre vent the misapprehension of those, whose minds were either already occupied with other views, or not prepared for the discus sion by previous reflection. 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.
Book Synopsis Introductory Lectures on Modern History by : Thomas Arnold
Download or read book Introductory Lectures on Modern History written by Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lectures on Modern History: Delivered in Lent Term, MDCCCXLII; With the Inaugural Lecture, Delivered in December, MDCCCXLI It will be seen from Dr. Arnold's prefatory note, that these Lectures were printed almost exactly as they were delivered; the date of the publication showing too that it was very soon after the delivery of them. The Lectures are altogether of an introductory character, and it was the humble hope of the author, that in succeeding years he would be enabled to devote other courses to the farther examination of modern history - the subject which he regarded as "of all others the most interesting, inasmuch as it includes all questions of the deepest interest, relating not to human things only, but to divine." The last lecture in this volume appears to have been delivered in the month of February, 1842, and it was upon the 12th of June that Dr. Arnold's sudden death took place. The hope of future labors in modern history was not to be fulfilled, and, in the words of his biographer, "the Introductory Lectures were to be invested with the solemnity of being the last words which he spoke in his beloved university." The design of these Lectures cannot be better described than by saying that they were intended to excite a greater interest in the study of history. Dr. Arnold's biographer thus speaks of them: "The course was purely and in every sense of the word 'introductory.' As the design of his first residence in Oxford was not to gain influence over the place so much as to familiarize himself with it after his long absence; so the object of his first lecture was not so much to impart any historical knowledge, as to state his own view of history, and to excite an interest in the study of it. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 1 by : George Miller
Download or read book Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 1 written by George Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 1: Delivered in the University of Dublin The superintending wisdom of the Deity Why should the moral be less a subject of philosophical examination than the material. 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.
Book Synopsis Two General Lectures on Modern History by : Henry Halford Vaughan
Download or read book Two General Lectures on Modern History written by Henry Halford Vaughan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two General Lectures on Modern History: Delivered on Inauguration, October, 1849 IT is impossible for me, on the present occasion, to enter on my subject. I can only approach it; and from the numerous points of view which might offer themselves, would gladly select not such as may give the richest view, and command the most attractive features, but such as our relation to it for the present as strangers, and our connexion with it through this University, would mostnaturally prompt. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern History by : Goldwin Smith
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History written by Goldwin Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on Modern History: Delivered in Oxford, 1859 61 I have failed, in spite of the kind assistance of my friends, the Librarian of the Bodleian and the Keeper of the Archives, to trace the real author of what we must allow to have been an enlightened and far-sighted scheme - a scheme which, had it taken effect, might have supplied Parliament and the public service in the last century with highly-trained legislators and statesmen, and perhaps have torn some dark and disastrous pages from our history. It is not likely that the praise is due to the king himself, who, though not without sense and public spirit, was indifferent to intellectual pursuits. Conjecture points to Sir Robert Walpole. That minis ter was at the height of power when the professorship was founded under George I. When the foundation was confirmed under George II., he had just thrust aside the feeble pretensions of Sir Spencer Compton, and gathered the reins of government, for a moment placed in the weak hands of the favorite, again into his own strong and skillful grasp. If Walpole was the real founder - if he even sanctioned the foundation - it is a remarkable testimony from a political leader of a turn of mind prac tical to coarseness, and who had discarded the literary statesmen of the Somers and Halifax school, to the value of high political education as a qualification for the pub lic service. It is also creditable to the memory of a min ister, the reputed father of the system of Parliamentary corruption, that he should have so far anticipated one of the best of modern reforms as to have been willing to devote a large amount of his patronage to merit, and to take that merit on the recommendation of Universities, one of which, at least, was by no means friendly to the crown. 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.
Book Synopsis A Course of Lectures on Modern History by : Frederick Schlegel
Download or read book A Course of Lectures on Modern History written by Frederick Schlegel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Course of Lectures on Modern History: To Which Are Added, Historical Essays on the Beginning of Our History, and on Caesar and Alexander It was my first wish to place these Lectures in the hands of my hearers. To some passages, especially those which are entirely based upon special and novel researches, it would have been perhaps more appropriate to add remarks upon those topics of inquiry, which could not well be discussed in oral delivery, as well as to adduce the less known authorities. Such was at first my intention. Most of the remarks, how ever, would have swollen into treatises; the character of the work would thereby have become totally changed, and several years would probably have elapsed before its completion. I believed, however, that several of those, who in Germany, or elsewhere, where the German language is known, pay attention to, and take an interest in, my labours, would prefer to have these reflections on modern times at once, and in the very form in which they now appear. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 8 by : George Miller
Download or read book Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 8 written by George Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History, Vol. 8: Delivered in the University of Dublin Are not two sparrow: cold for a fan-thing? And one of them shall notfall on the grown! Without your Father. 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.
Book Synopsis Outlines of Lectures on History Addressed to the Students of the Cornell University, Vol. 1 by : Andrew D. White
Download or read book Outlines of Lectures on History Addressed to the Students of the Cornell University, Vol. 1 written by Andrew D. White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outlines of Lectures on History Addressed to the Students of the Cornell University, Vol. 1: The First Century of Modern History Preliminary sketch of the great twofold combination now to be studied the combination of the Greek Learn ing with two great masses of National Character - the Romanic and the Teutonic. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on the History of Literature by : Friedrich Schlegel
Download or read book Lectures on the History of Literature written by Friedrich Schlegel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the History of Literature: Ancient and Modern IN the following discourses, it is my design to give a general view of the development and of the spirit of litera 2ture among the most illustrious nations of ancient as well as of modern times; but my principal object is to represent' literature as it has exerted its influence on, the affairs of active life, on the fate of nations, and on the progressive character of ages. 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.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern History by : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton FELLOW STUDENTS-I look back today to a time before the middle of the century, when I was reading at Edinburgh and fervently wishing to come to this University. At three colleges I applied for admission, and, as things then were, I was refused by all. Here, from the first, I vainly fixed my hopes, and here, in a happier hour, after five-and-forty years, they are at last fulfilled. I desire, first, to speak to you of that which I may reasonably call the Unity of Modern History, as an easy approach to questions necessary to be met on the threshold by any one occupying this place, which my predecessor has made so formidable to me by the reflected lustre of his name. You have often heard it said that Modern History is a subject to which neither beginning nor end can be assigned. No beginning, because the dense web of the fortunes of man is woven without a void; because, in society as in nature, the structure is continuous, and we can trace things back uninterruptedly, until we dimly descry the Declaration of Independence in the forests of Germany. No end, because, on the same principle, history made and history making are scientifically inseparable and separately unmeaning. "Politics," said Sir John Seeley, "are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics." Everybody perceives the sense in which this is true. For the science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the stream of history, like grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to the making of the future #1. In France, such is the weight attached to the study of our own time, that there is an appointed course of contemporary history, with appropriate text-books #2. That is a chair which, in the progressive division of labour by which both science and government prosper #3, may some day be founded in this country. Meantime, we do well to acknowledge the points at which the two epochs diverge. For the contemporary differs from the modern in this, that many of its facts cannot by us be definitely ascertained. The living do not give up their secrets with the candour of the dead; one key is always excepted, and a generation passes before we can ensure accuracy. Common report and outward seeming are bad copies of the reality, as the initiated know it. Even of a thing so memorable as the war of 1870, the true cause is still obscure; much that we believed has been scattered to the winds in the last six months, and further revelations by important witnesses are about to appear. The use of history turns far more on certainty than on abundance of acquired information. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern History by : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Download or read book Lectures on Modern History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Unity of History, Or Outlines of Lectures on Ancient and Modern History, Considered on the Principles of the Church of England (Classic Reprint) by : Charles John Abraham
Download or read book The Unity of History, Or Outlines of Lectures on Ancient and Modern History, Considered on the Principles of the Church of England (Classic Reprint) written by Charles John Abraham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Unity of History, or Outlines of Lectures on Ancient and Modern History, Considered on the Principles of the Church of England Doubtless all the above writers have very great merits as histo rians, narrators, and philosophers but their anti-christian or bereti cal Opinions make their works more dangerous than useful; and the fact is a startling one, that our youth draws its historical know ledge mainly from such impure wells. 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.
Book Synopsis On History and the Study of History by : William P. Atkinson
Download or read book On History and the Study of History written by William P. Atkinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On History and the Study of History: Three Lectures These are examples of views about the study of History which I am constantly meeting. Let us examine a little the ideas of its relation to educa tion which they imply: the idea that History is good for those who have what is called a taste for it, but useless for those who have not; the idea that History may be good as a part of some kinds of education, but has no place in that kind of edu cation which goes by the name of scientific; the, idea that the study of History is properly no part of education at all, but forms a part of what is called general reading, which one can take up at any time, or pursue in any manner; or, again, the idea that the study of History is the process of packing away in the memory, in their proper order, as great a number as possible of facts and names and dates, and that whoever is unsuccessful in that is incapable of learning History. 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.
