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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: Abt. III.?1. History of the Knights Templars. By C. G-. Addison. London: 1842. 2. Monuments Historiques relatifs a la Condamnation des Chevaliers du Temple. Par F. J. M. Ratnouaed. Paris: 1813. 3. Histoire de la Condamnation des Templiers. Par Pieeeb Du Pot. Bruxelles: 1751. 4. Histoire des Croisades. Par J. P. HlCHAUD. Fourth edition. Paris: 1825. 'T'HE records of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth cen- turies are essentially the records of incidents and biographies. Their history is signalised by episodes which dramatised for the moment the levels of human life; their facts, as surveyed from a latter-day standpoint, appear as though truth masqueraded in the garb of fiction and events under the semblance of an incredible romance. Moreover even the annals that chronicle the progress of thought are stamped with the impress of a personal note. We read in the pages of the past not the story of nations, but the lives of kings; again and again the isolated exploit of one dauntless adventurer usurps the whole stage of vast war- dramas; the personal fortunes of the discoverer eclipse the interest of the developements of science. The masses of mankind claimed as little attention from contemporary spectators as the shifting crowd in a theatrical time-scene. ' II y a dans 1'homme deux hommes, 1'homme de son siecle, ' Phomme de tous les siandcles, ' and the history of bygone ages is essentially the history of the individual in antithesis to the history of the species. Historians, moral and philosophic, have since arisen and with infinite pains and laborious deductions have turned their magnifying glass upon the common herd: peasant and artisan, agriculturist and merchant. They have detected phases of the thought and life of the multitude, and attained to some knowledge of...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346962 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346960 |
| Weight | 1.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.01 In |
| List Price | $30.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 454 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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