Author : William Smyth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330376560
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (765 download)
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 2015-06-25 with total page 457 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 Nothing so mush 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. 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.
