Collected Papers
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ISBN13: 9780217825627
Paperback|9780217825627
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: i8- MICHAEL'S ENGLISH HISTORY IN THE i8TH CENTURY1 (The English Historical Review, July 1897.) This most substantial volume (against the mere outward or ponderable form of which I hazard a humble protest on behalf of fellow-students) contains the first instalment of what unmistakably promises to be a contribution of high value to an important chapter of British history. Granting the truth of the Duke of Devonshire's recent observation that it still remains most convenient to survey the past of our national history, as the witches invited Macbeth to survey the future of his own, under the aspect of a succession of Kings, we may remember that royal dynasty and national epoch are terms by no means always covering one another. The Hanoverian period proper of our history extends through the reigns of the first two Georges and no further; and it is precisely with regard to these reigns that a comprehensive account of our country's affairs and action in their relation to those of Europe and the world at large has long been a desideratum. We usually resort to the earlier volumes of Lord Stanhope's work (to which his Reign of Queen Anne forms a quite inadequate introduction) as to a manual trustworthy not only with regard to its facts, but also as to the spirit of its argument. Yet it would be idleto pretend to ignore either the limits to which this author's researches were confined, or a certain general incompleteness of treatment which, in spite of the clearsightedness and singlemindedness of an untiring devotion to his subject, rarely favoured by having been born and bred in intimacy with some of our finest political traditions, have combined to exclude his chief book from the highest class of historical authorities. Ranke, on the other hand, who alone among German writers, from...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217825627 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217825621 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $20.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 312 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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