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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: CHAP. VII. THE PRIMACY OF THE WORLD. What shall I do to bo for ever known, Aud make the age to come my oAvn ? ?Cotvi.et. What recluse so blinded with theories of rectilinear progress, what statesman so shy of evil augury, what historian so tender of hinting the decay of his subject, what enthusiast is there so enslaved to hope as to deny when closing the annals of any nation of place and of renown, that there is one bright summer in its history, a time of energy, of statcliness, of splendour, when its character was most fully formed and its progress was the progress of humanity? When the hour of its greatness strikes, a nation hitherto little known and regarded with no awe or veneration comes suddenly to the front rank, bearing with it all such elements of success as its previous career has furnished to it, and straining them to the utmost, it impresses its character on the century, it furnishes from among its sons all the men who in that age advance knowledge; so that the history of that nation's progress, so long as it holds the foremost place, is the history of the progress of humanity. Posterity, as it contemplates the story of nations, once great, but great no longer, is apt to contract its field of view, and in its eagerness to study the epoch of their glory forgets the raw years of their youth, the feeblestruggles of their age. The rays of their varied splendour contract as we retreat into one burning focus, more dazzling aud more sublime than when we look upon them closer. Greece and Rome, Carthage and Egypt, Venice and Florence, Spain and Holland, had their brilliant periods of proud supremacy with a dark past and a darker future. Men leave to students and to statesmen those wastes and deserts of uncultured history, and love to read of the times when a peo...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458933959
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 206
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458933954
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 376 gr


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