Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation Classic Reprint written by Edith Sichel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catherine De' Medici and the French Reformation The greater functions of history, the discovery of new documents, the revelation of new facts, demand great scholars. To the achievement of such ends a study like the present one - a study of persons, not an ordered narration of events - makes no kind of pretension. But history has its bye-paths and its lesser purposes, and one of the chief tasks of the minor historian is to read the books that no one has leisure for. It is customary to question the use of writing fresh works when so many have already been written. But we too frequently forget how many of these books are no books. There are unknown contemporary records, buried either in remote publications or between the dusty covers of inconceivably tedious tomes, which have to be gone through for the sake of the solitary paragraph, perhaps the solitary sentence, that may serve the occasion in view. And there are always the volumes, old and modern, which are compiled, not written, out of which a book might be evoked. To gather together some such old fragments, to prevent waste of truth, to rescue the few vivid facts and impressions embedded in ruinous remains - still more, if possible, to throw some light upon the characters of an age, and thus, indirectly, upon its events - these seem aims not altogether incompatible with usefulness, or with the modest means at an ordinary chronicler's disposal. And if the following pages, which disclaim any larger ambition, should succeed in lending vitality to a single personage, a single occurrence of the past, they will not have been written in vain. My thanks are due to Messrs. Longman and to the editor of the Edinburgh Review for permitting me to reproduce parts of an article on "The Women of the Renaissance," published in that periodical last April. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
Download or read book Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... I chapter xv Bernard Palissy "T desire in no way to be the imitator of my predecesX sors, unless it be in what they have done well, according to the ordinance of God. For all round me I see abuses of the arts, while every man trots in the accustomed groove and follows the footmarks of those who went before him." In these words of his own we have the keynote to Bernard Palissy. His wish to be " in no wise the imitator of his predecessors" expresses the whole man--the austere Protestant, the ardent follower of science, the fearless innovator in every branch of knowledge that he touched. There was not a vestige of tradition about him, no one was freer from swaddlingbands. "I entered into myself," he writes in another place, "so that I might search among the secrets of my heart and dive into my conscience." This power of introspection was part of his rough sincerity, his inability to acquiesce in any sort of platitude. A trenchant originality is felt in each word that he utters. "All men "--says he in his writings--" toil at cultivating the land without the remotest philosophy... without considering the nature of substances for the real good of agriculture." "To hear you speak," replies his imaginary interlocutor, "one would think that a field-labourer needed philosophy--chose que je trouve Strange." "I tell" you "--breaks forth Palissy again--" that to pursue agriculture without philosophy is no better than a daily robbing of the earth.... And I marvel that the earth and her fruits do not cry vengeance against certain murderers, ignorant and ungrateful, who day by day do nothing but waste and spoil trees and plants." Fervent, patient, irritable, many-sided, forcible, strong of body, stronger of will, his intellect dominating all things, ...
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