Download or read book Historical and Political Essays Classic Reprint written by Henry Cabot Lodge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical and Political Essays I merely desire, by way of preface, to thank most heartily the publishers of The Atlantic Monthly and Andover Review; my friend, Mr. R. W. Gilder, Editor of The Century; Mr. James Knowles, Editor of The Nineteenth Century; and The New York Tribune, for their kindness in per mitting me to reprint the essays which I have. 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 Political Essays Classic Reprint written by James Russell Lowell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Political Essays Irresponsible power, tempted by passions whose existence in himself he had never suspected, and betrayed by the political necessities of his position, he became gradually guilty of all the crimes and the luxury which had seemed so hideous to him in his hermitage over a dish of water-creases. 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 An Old Master and Other Political Essays Classic Reprint written by Woodrow Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Old Master and Other Political Essays Why has no one ever written on the art of academic lecturing and its many notable triumphs? In some quarters new educational canons have spoken an em phatic condemnation of the college lect ure, and it would seem to be high time to consider its value, as illustrative of an art about to be lost, if not as exemplary of forces to be retained, even if modified. Are not our college class-rooms, in being robbed of the Old-time lecture, and getting instead a science-brief of data and bibliog raphy, being deprived also of that literary atmosphere which once pervaded them? I've are unquestionably gaining in thor oughness; but are we gaining in thought fulness? We are giving to many youths an insight, it may be profound, into spe cialties; but are we giving any of them a broad outlook? 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 Essays Vol 1 written by Archibald Alison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays, Vol. 1: Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous The essays now submitted to the Public in a collected form have been written at various times during the last twenty years, and have, for the most part, appeared in Blackwood's Magazine with the Publishers of which the Author, during that long period, has been in terms of unbroken friendship and constant communication. As the Political Papers, which were all published in the Magazine, contain the Contemporary views of an anxious observer of public events during that period, in the course of which the most important questions ever agitated in this country or on the Continent were made the subjects of public discussion, he thinks that, as representing the Opinions of a large portion of Contemporaries on these subjects, they may not be without interest to subsequent times. The measures they embrace are the most important ever brought into action in this or perhaps any other country, and which, for good or for evil. 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 Essays in History and Politics Classic Reprint written by John MacKinnon Robertson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays in History and Politics Working miracles or having miracles worked in the behalf. The later editions of the Scots Worthies pr bably contain few of the old stories of supernatural inte position for the succor of the elect and the destruction the wicked; but on such fables the ecclesiasticism modern Scotland was to a large extent nourished; and t] survival of the tradition has still some share in the temp of the resistance to the withdrawal of State recogniti 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 Political and Literary Essays Classic Reprint written by Evelyn Baring Cromer and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Political and Literary Essays The favourable reception given to the volume of Essays which I published last autumn encourages me to lay a second series before the public. The following essays appeared for the most part in The Spectator, The Quarterly Review, The National Review, and The Nineteenth Century and After. They are now republished with the consent of the editors of these various periodicals. In some cases a few additions and alterations have been made. I have also to thank Mr. Sidney Low and his publishers, Messrs. Smith, Elder Co., for allowing the republication of an Introduction which I wrote to his work, entitled Egypt in Transition. Similarly, Mr. Stephen Paget and his publisher, Mr. H. K. Lewis, have kindly permitted the republication of an Introduction which I wrote to his book For and Against Experiments on Animals. Since last Easter I have been prevented by ill-health from writing anything. 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 Essays Vol 2 written by Archibald Alison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays, Vol. 2: Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous Like all other men whose thoughts have made a great and widespread impression on mankind, the originality and value of Montesquieu's conceptions cannot be rightly appre ciated by subsequent ages. That is the consequence of their very originality and importance. They have sunk so deep, and spread so far among mankind, that they have become common, and almost trite. Like the expressions of Shak Speare, Gray, or Milton, they have become household words on reading his works as on reading those of our own immortal poets, we are astonished to find how vast a proportion of our habitual thoughts and expressions have sprung from his genius. This, however, far from being a reproach to an author, is his highest commendation; it demonstrates at once the originality of his thoughts, and the impression they have made on mankind. If we would discover the advance a great man has made, we must recur to the authors in the same line who have preceded him, and then the change appears great indeed. The highest praise which can be bestowed on an author as an original thinker, is to say, that his ideas were unknown to the authors who preceded, trite with those who followed him. 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 Political Essays written by William Hazlitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters I AM no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man: but I have a hatred of tyranny, and. A contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have ex pressed as often and as strongly as I could. I cannot sit quietly down under the claims of barefaced power, and I have tried to expose the little arts of sophistry by which they are defended. I have no mind to have my person made a property of, nor my under standing made a dupe of. I deny that liberty and slavery are convertible terms, that right and wrong, truth and falsehood, plenty and famine, the comforts or wretchedness of a people, are matters of perfect indifference. That is all I know of the matter; but on these points I am likely to remain incorrigible, in spite of any arguments that I have seen used to the contrary. It needs no sagacity to discover that two and two make four; but to persist in maintain ing this obvious position, if all the fashion, authority, hypocrisy, and venality of mankind were arrayed against it, would require a considerable effort of personal courage, and. Would soon leave a. Man in a. 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 The Free Holder written by Daniel Midwinter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Free-Holder: Or Political Essays By this means it will be in the power of a Highlander to be at all times a good teiiant, Without being a Rebel; and to deferve the chal trailer of a faithful fervant, without thinkin him [elf obliged to follow his mafler to the gal ows. 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 Essays Upon History and Politics Classic Reprint written by Thomas Edward Kebbel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays Upon History and Politics The author of these Essays has not republished them because he believes that they are distinguished by any such peculiar merits as to place them above the average standard of periodical literature; but because, owing to causes which it would be tedious to explain, the periodical Essay has en croached upon the province of original authorship to such an extent, that the republication of articles contributed to reviews and newspapers is the only way open to many writers of coming before the public at all, or of testing the value of their own ideas by submitting them to the only kind of scrutiny which can be considered really effective. 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 Essays Political Social and Religious and Historical Lectures Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Richard Congreve and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays Political, Social, and Religious, and Historical Lectures, Vol. 3 Nora - I have quoted the words Dr. Congreve used in the Preface to the second volume, applying them to the contents of those two volumes: but if as I hope some account of his life, gathered from various sources - from his occasional entries in his diary and from his letters, from the letters of his friends both to him and about him, and from those yet living who were in earliest and closest relation to him - be published, it will be seen how little the purpose of his life changed from its first promise to his latest years. All Dr. Congreve wrote was historical, said one of his most valued friends. Certainly all was social - all was in the service of Man - of Humanity. 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 Political Literary Essays written by Earl of Cromer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Political Literary Essays: 1908-1913 I have to thank the editors of The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, The Nineteenth Century and After., and The Spectator for allowing the republication of these essays, all of which appeared originally in their respective columns. No important alterations or additions have been made, but I should like to observe, as regards the first essay of the series - on "The Government of Subject Races" - that, although only six years have elapsed since it was written, events in India have moved rapidly during that short period. I adhere to the opinions expressed in that essay so far as they go, but it will be obvious to any one who has paid attention to Indian affairs that, if the subject had to be treated now, many very important issues, to which I have not alluded, would have to be imported into the discussion. 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 Conservative Essays written by S. S. Nicholas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Conservative Essays: Legal and Political The largest liberty of the citizen compatible with necessary restraint, or in other words, good government, is the desideratum for whose achievement the wise have incessantly labored Since the first formation of human society. This is the great insol uble problem, upon which the wisdom of the whole world has been in vain expended. 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 Essays Critical and Political Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by J. H. Balfour Browne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays, Critical and Political, Vol. 1 The essays here collected were written many years ago, but they are concerned with matters - such as the merits of great writers - which never grow old. It is on that ground I have thought it worth while reprinting them. In each case I have given the date of the earlier publication that any of their contem porary references may be understood. The prisoner who was asked if he had anything to say why sen tence should not be passed on him for the crime of which he had been convicted, said that he hoped his lordship would take into consideration the youth of his counsel. It would be foolish to claim that these essays were early essays, and therefore en titled to clement criticism. The judgments expressed were the opinions of a younger man than the writer of this preface, as the dates frequently show, but although the latter might alter some of the criticisms, he on the whole agrees with these more youthful utterances. He has to thank the manager of the Times for his permission to reproduce two of the essays con. 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 The Economic and Political Essays of the Ante Bellum South Classic Reprint written by Ulrich B. Phillips and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Economic and Political Essays of the Ante-Bellum South As a rule these writings deal not with strictly eco nomic or strictly political themes, but with complex public questions involving economics, politics and society simultaneously. They can be fitted into a plan of treatment only with difficulty and with some danger of slighting significant minor phases in some of the important essays discussed. 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 Historical Essays Classic Reprint written by Edward A. Freeman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Essays The present series of Essays is meant to illustrate some periods of history which lie between the periods which were illustrated in the two earlier series. It is the fulfilment of the hope which was expressed in the Preface to the second series. That series, the second in order of publication, dealt with events which were earlier in point of time than those which were dealt with in the first series. I then said that the Essays in that second series belonged to 'the time when political life was confined to the two great Mediterranean peninsulas, and when the Teutonic and Slavonic races had as yet hardly shown themselves on the field of history.' The latest subject dealt with in that series was The Flavian Caesars? The earliest continental subject dealt with in the other series was Frederick the First, King of Italy - the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa looked at in his specially Italian character. I said that I should be well pleased to connect the two series by a third, which might deal with the intermediate times, with those times which I look on as the true Middle Ages, the times when the Roman and Teutonic elements of modern Europe stood side by side, and had not yet been worked together into a third thing distinct from either.' The present series may, I hope, do something to fill up this gap, and thereby may help further to strengthen in the minds of those who may read them the doctrine of the unbroken continuity of history, and specially of the long abiding life of the Roman Empire, Eastern and Western. 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 Essays Historical and Biographical Political Social Literary and Scientific Classic Reprint written by Hugh Miller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays, Historical and Biographical, Political, Social, Literary, and Scientific Many a broad plain shall it have traversed that is still unbroken from the waste, - many a moral wilderness on Which the Sun of Righteousness has not yet arisen. Nearly eighteen and a half centuries shall have elapsed since the shepherds first heard the midnight song in Bethlehem, - Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good-will to the children of men. And yet the coming year shall pass, in its first visit, over prisons, and gibbets, and penal settlements, and battle-fields on which the festering (lead moulder unburied; it will see the shotted gun and the spear and the crease and the mur dering tomahawk, slaves in their huts, and captives in their dungeons. It will look down on uncouth idols in their temples; worshippers of the false prophet in their mosques; the Papist in his confessional; the Puseyite in his stone allegory; and on much idle and bitter controversy among those holders of the true faith whose proper work is the conversion of the world. But the years shall pass, and a change shall come: the sacrifice on Calvary was not offered up in vain, nor in vain bath the adorable Saviour conquered, and ascended to reign as King and Lord over the nations. The kingdoms shall become his kingdoms, the people his people. The morning rises slowly and in clouds, but the dawn has broken and it shall shine forth more and more, until the twilight shadows shall have dispersed and the sulphurous fogs shall have dissipated, and all shall be peace and gladness amid the blaze of the perfect day. 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.
