Lectures on Modern History
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ISBN13: 9780217009492
Paperback|9780217009492
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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: INTRODUCTORY LECTURE. 1809. I Must avail myself of the privilege of a prefatory address to enter into some explanations with respect to the lectures I am going to deliver, which could not well find a place in the lectures themselves. I must mention to you the plan upon which they are drawn up. And I think it best to give you at once the history of my own thoughts in forming this plan, because such a detail will serve to display the general nature of the study in which you are now to engage, and will lead to observations that may afford to these lectures their best chance of being useful. My first impressions, then, with respect to a scheme for Lectures on Modern History, were these, ? That, in the first place, all detail, all narrative, were impossible. That the great subject before me was the situation of Europe in different periods of these later ages, ? the progress of the human mind, of human society, of human happiness, of the intellectual character of the species for the last fifteen centuries. Every thing, therefore, of a temporary nature was to be excluded; all more particular and local history; all peculiar delineations of characters, revolutions, and events, that concerned not the general interests of mankind. That the history of France or Spain or England was not to be considered separately and distinctly, but only in conjunction, each with the other; each, only as it affected by its relations the great community of Europe. That, in short, such occurrences only were to be mentioned, as indicated the character of the times, ?such changes only, as left permanent effects. That a summary, an estimate of human nature, as it had shown itself, since the fall of the Roman empire, on the great theatre Vol. i. 1 of the civilized part of the world, was...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217009492 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217009492 |
| Weight | 1.10 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.76 In |
| List Price | $25.51 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 338 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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