Lectures on Ancient History: Comprising a General View of the Principal Events and Eras in Civil History, From the Creation of the World Till the ... Founded in the History of Ancient Literature - Softcover

Whelpley, Samuel

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ISBN 10: 1333705441 ISBN 13: 9781333705442

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Lectures on Ancient History: Comprising a General View of the Principal Events and Eras in Civil History, From the Creation of the World Till the Augustan Age; Together With an Allegory on Genius and Taste, Founded in the History of Ancient Literature

It is the design of these lectures to give some general view of the rise and fall of nations; of their character, manners, revolutions, and gee graphical situation. In the present' scheme I propose to comprehend a period of years, extending from the creation to the Christian mr'a. This will be comprised in twelve lectures, enti tled A General View of Ancient History. The First, which is the present one, will be the Intro= duction. The Second will be a View of the ante diluvian world, including the deluge. The Third Will be a View of Egypt. The Fourth, a View of Assyria. The Fifth, a View of Media and Per sia. The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth, of Greece. The Ninth, of Carthage. The Tenth and Ele venth, of Rome. The Twelfth, of the Jewish State.

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Excerpt from Lectures on Ancient History: Comprising a General View of the Principal Events and Eras in Civil History, From the Creation of the World Till the Augustan Age; Together With an Allegory on Genius and Taste, Founded in the History of Ancient Literature
The state of society at any given period seems to present adamantine barriers to the Improvement of this class of people. Itof your pervading and benevolent mind, Reverend Sir, that the immense accumula tion of this unhappy class, nay, the very existence of such a class, must be, in a great measure, chargeable to the government of a country, the selfish and cruel temper, spirit, and maxims of a people, or the resistless force of unpropitious habits, arising from those two sources combined. 1 rejoice to say that our own happy country has set a better example to the world, in this respect, than almost any nation. Yet how far, alas are we from a complete remedy? The Hebrews, by divine direction, and after them the Lacedemonians, endeavoured to set up barriers against the fatal and deteriorating in uence of unequal wealth; and the free and magnanimous spirit of Rome often at. Tempted, but never could achieve it.
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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."

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333705441
• ISBN 13: 9781333705442
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338