Letter From Henry Hart Milman To Sir John Acton

Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Baron
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781506012087
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Letters of Lord Acton written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Baron and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]to put the Church before Christianity, and will end by putting himself before the Church." The time came both to Dollinger and to Acton, when the voice of the Church said one thing, and the voice of truth another. They did not hesitate. But the results to the priest were different from the results to the layman. At Munich, meanwhile, Sir John Acton laboured prodigiously. Latin and Greek he never mastered as he would have mastered them under Munro and Kennedy. But he learned them well enough for the purposes of an historian, with more help than Gibbon had, though not with the same innate genius. Of French, German, Italian, and Spanish, he became a master. At any subsequent period he would just as soon have written or spoken in French or German as in English. About this time he began to collect the splendid library which he formed in his[...].""