Download or read book Men Who Have Made the Empire Classic Reprint written by George Chetwynd Griffith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men Who Have Made the Empire HE Epic of England has yet to be written. It may be that the fulness of time for writing it has not come yet, or it may be that Britain is still waiting for her Homer and her Virgil. Perhaps the matured genius of a Rudyard Kipling, that strong, sweet Singer of the Seven Seas, may some day address itself to the accomplishment of this most splendid of all possible tasks, and then, again, it may be that it is his only to sound the prelude. That is a matter for the gods to decide In their own good time, but this much is certain - that when this work has been worthily done the world will hear echoing through the ages such a thunder-song as has never stirred human hearts before. 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 Men Who Have Made the Empire written by George Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT may strike those of my readers who have only got their history from their school-books as somewhat strange that I should begin my record of British Empire-Makers with a man whom they have been taught to look upon as a foreigner, an invader, a conqueror, and a ruthless oppressor of the English.The answer is simple, though manifold. The school-books are only filled with potted facts, and are therefore wrong and unreliable. It has been well said that England was made on the shores of the Baltic Sea and the German Ocean. The so-called Englishmen who occupied it at the time of the Conquest were not Englishmen at all, for the simple reason that the true English race had yet to be born, and, after it, the true British.The England and Scotland of the eleventh century were peopled, not by nations, but by tribes mostly at bitter and constant war with each other. There were still Jutes and Angles, Picts and Scots, Danes and Swedes and Norwegians, each occupying their own little stretch of country, and governed, more or less effectually, by their chieftains, in proof of which it is enough to recall the fact that Harold's last fight but one was against his own brother, who had come across the Narrow Seas at the head of a miscellaneous crowd of hungry pirates to steal as much as he could of the ownerless heritage that Edward the Confessor had left behind him.

Download or read book Men Who Have Made the New German Empire written by G. L. M. Strauss and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men Who Have Made the New German Empire: A Series of Brief Biographic Sketches Had Bismarck been able to plead the cause of government personally before the Reichstag, there can barely be a doubt but he would have fully succeeded in carrying with him the votes of the national-liberals and the more reasonable of the progressists. Unhappily, the chancellor's illness had thrown the entire machinery out of gear. When Atlas bends, however slightly, the burthen he carries must necessarily begin to oscillate. 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 Men Who Have Made the New German Empire Vol 1 of 2 written by G. L. M. Strauss and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men Who Have Made the New German Empire, Vol. 1 of 2: A Series of Brief Biographic Sketches History tells us of some kings of men, leaders of nations, and founders of empires, who themselves in great part achieved their own greatness. Such were, for instance, Cyrus of Persia, Philip and Alexander of Macedon, Caesar, Charlemagne, our own Alfred, Henry I. Of Germany, the founder of cities; Gustavus Adolphus, the saviour of the Pro testant faith; Oliver Cromwell, the true founder of England's power and glory; Czar Peter, the wonder ful Colossus, who with his giant stride spanned the wide chasm between barbarism and civilization, knead ing and moulding hordes of wretched serfs into mate rial fit to form a future nation the great Branden burg Elector and the unique king, who between them laid the foundation of the new German empire of our own days and George Washington. 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 Rise of the Empire Classic Reprint written by Walter Besant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rise of the Empire What is it that has awaked the British peoples from their dreamy isolation? Fast steamers, telegraph cables, cheap postage, popular educa tion: these have helped us to see and hear more of each other, and to realize how near we are even to the uttermost parts of the earth.. And we are being driven as well as drawn together. As we read the extraordinary charges fabricated against us by certain writers in the French, German and Russian press, charges that are not only read but believed by many in the land of their invention, we realize that dangerous things are sometimes done by deluded people. Instinctively we gather closer together, back to back and shoulder to shoulder, ready for an onslaught which sanity would forbid. 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 Champions of the Fleet written by Edward Fraser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Champions of the Fleet: Captains and Men-of-War, and Days That Helped to Make the Empire Among others the circumstances in which she came to be built and was safely sent afloat in spite of expected incendiarism where too those who fought on board at Trafalgar came from, and how many representatives each of our counties had with Nelson in his last fight. Such are some of the matters dealt with in these pages, which of themselves should. 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 Heroes of Conquest and Empire Classic Reprint written by Etta M. Underwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Heroes of Conquest and Empire Whenever girls and boys work and play to gether, some of them are sure to be leaders. One may be a leader in a game, in thinking of helpful acts, or in making lessons worth while. How may we know which leaders are good ones? How may a leader know when he is doing right? Perhaps this book will help. You in learning to choose good leaders, for it tells of heroes who were so splendid that for hundreds of years girls and boys, and men and women, have enjoyed learning about them. It may tell, too, What a leader needs to. Do. 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 Leading Men of Japan written by Charles Lanman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Leading Men of Japan: With an Historical Summary of the Empire In the second part of this work I have introduced a bird's-eye view of the History of Japan, which I contributed to Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, together with several chapters bearing on the outlying possessions of the Empire, or directly connected with its history. 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 Louis Napoleon and the Genesis of the Second Empire Classic Reprint written by Frank Halliday Cheetham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis Napoleon and the Genesis of the Second Empire A new generation is growing up in France to which the Emperor is but a name, and which is therefore able to regard him without personal prejudice, and with something of the historic sense with which it is possible to regard his uncle. More than fifteen years ago M. Emile Ollivier expressed the opinion that the historic hour had not then struck for the Second Empire and its men, but that he had absolute confidence in the future judgment of history. Since then M. Ollivier has brought out thirteen volumes of his great and yet um completed work, l'empire Libéml. Other historians, such as M. Pierre de la Gorce and M. Lamy, have written the history, or contributed studies to the better understanding, of the Second Empire. M. André Lebey has given us the first volumes of his important and exhaustive study of Les T rois Coups d'etat, while a host of writers have dealt with the more personal aspect of Napoleon iii's life, both in relation to the time in which he lived, and the government of which he was the Chief. 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 Cecil Rhodes written by Princess Catherine Radziwill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cecil Rhodes: Man and Empire-Maker No other country in the world could have achieved such a success as did England in the complicated and singularly difficult task of making itself popular among nations whose independence it had destroyed. 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 Atoms of Empire Classic Reprint written by Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Atoms of Empire "What on earth does the Chief have an animal like this Padgett to dine in Government House for?" asked Dayton-Philipps, querulously. "I expected to rough it, of course, when I came out here to the Coast, because they promised us active service, but hang me if ever I expected to rough it at the Governor's dinner-table with a missionary-thing like that. Why, the fellow hadn't got an aitch to his name; he stoked with his knife all the time; and when he got a fresh stock of perspiration on his forehead - O my aunt! he was too awful for anything." Forbes, the Colonial Secretary, fanned himself in his long-sleeved Madeira chair, and suggested lazily that Dayton-Philipps had been taken out of lavender too soon, and sent out into the warm, wide world too early. "We're a primitive people, we Coasters," said Forbes. "If a man has a white skin and a dress coat, we ask him to dinner. You re too fastidious." "Rot!" said Dayton-Philipps. "And, besides, the Padgett person hadn't a dress coat." "Oh, of course, I was speaking figuratively. 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 Philip Nolan s Friends written by Edward E. Hale and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Philip Nolan's Friends: A Story of the Change of Western Empire HE war with Spain compels us, whether we wish to or not, to look back on our early history. It compels us to ask why the population of the southwestern part of the United States disbelieves Spain, distrusts her, and is delighted to make war with her. 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 Uncle Bernac written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire My dear nephew Louis, ' said the letter, 'now that your father is dead, and that you are alone in the world, I am sure that you will not wish to carry on the feud which has existed between the two halves of the family. At the time of the troubles your father was drawn towards the Side of the King, and I towards that of the people, and it ended, as you know, by his having to fly from the country, and by my becoming the possessor of the estates of. Grosbois. No doubt it'is very hard that you should find yourself in a different position to your anoes tors, but I am sure that you would rather that the land should be held by a Bernac than we stranger. From the brother of your mother you will at least always meet with sympathy and consideration. 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 Bismarck written by James Wycliffe Headlam and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bismarck: And the Foundation of the German Empire During this period, two works have appeared to which some reference is necessary. The value of Busch's Memoirs has been much exaggerated; ex cept for quite the last years of Bismarck's life they contain little new information which is of any im portance. Not only had a large portion of the book already been published in Busch's two earlier books, but many of the anecdotes and documents in those parts which were new had also been published elsewhere. Bismarck's own Memoirs have a very different value: not so much because of the new facts which they record, but because of the light they throw on Bismarck's character and on the attitude he adopted towards men and political problems. With his letters and speeches, they will always remain the chief source for our knowledge of his inner life. 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 A Boy of the First Empire Classic Reprint written by Elbridge S. Brooks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Boy of the First Empire Across the open space that lay between the wide avenue and the grove of stately chestnut-trees came the figure Of a man, and at his heels, sniffing and thronging, moved the creatures that were so strange and inexplicable to the peeping city-boy - a dozen of the tame Barbary antelopes of St. Cloud. They were dainty, timorous, graceful little beasts; but desire had overcome timidity, and they trooped after the man, now crowding all about him, now starting back in alarm as he plunged his hand into his coat pocket; but at him again they charged when his hand was withdrawn, and one and then another of the antelopes would thrust a brown muzzle into the extended hand, and, with sneeze and snort, lick up the powdery offering it held. 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 Some American Opinions on the Indian Empire Classic Reprint written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some American Opinions on the Indian Empire In India we encounter the most colossal example history affords of the successful administration by men of European blood of a thickly populated region in another continent. It is the greatest feat of the kind that has been performed Since the break up of the Roman Empire. Indeed, it is a greater feat than was performed under the Roman Empire. Unquestion ably mistakes have been made; it would indicate qualities literally superhuman if SO gigantic a, task had been accomplished without mistakes. It is easy enough to point out shortcomings, but the fact remains that the successful administration Of the Indian Empire by the English has been one Of the most notable and the most admirable achievements of the white race during the past two centuries. On the whole it has been for the immeasurable benefit of the nations of India themselves. Suffering has been caused in particular cases and at particular times to these natives much more Often, I believe, by well-intentioned ignorance or bad judg ment than by any moral obliquity. But on the whole there has been a far more resolute effort to secure fair treatment for the humble and the Oppressed during the days of English rule in India than during any other period of recorded India history. England does not draw a penny from India for English purposes; She Spends for India the revenues raised in India, and they are spent for the benefit of the Indians them selves. Undoubtedly India is a less pleasant place than formerly for the heads of tyrannical states. There is now little or no room in it for successful freebooter chieftains, for the despots who lived in gorgeous Splendour while under their cruel rule the immense mass of their countrymen festered in sodden misery. But the mass of the people has been and are far better Off than ever before, and far better Off than they would now be if English control were overthrown or withdrawn. Indeed, if English control were now withdrawn from India, the whole Peninsula would become a chaos Of bloodshed and violence. 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 Roman Society written by Samuel Dill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Roman Society: In the Last Century of the Western Empire A few words of preface seem to he necessary to explain the object of this book, and the limits within which the writer has wished to confine it. It is perhaps superfluous to say that nothing like a general history of the period has been attempted. That is a task which has been already accomplished by abler hands. The subject of this work is mainly what it professes to be, the inner life and thoughts of the last three generations in the Empire of the West If external events are referred to, it is only because men's private fortunes and feelings cannot be severed from the fortunes of the State. The limits of the period covered by this study of Roman society have not been arbitrarily chosen. The last hundred years of the Western Empire seem marked off both by momentous events, and, for the student of society, by the authorities at his command. The commencement of the period coincides roughly with the passage of the Gothic hordes across the Danube, the accession of Gratian and Theodosius, the termination of the long truce between paganism and the Christian Empire, and the reopening of the conflict which, within twenty years, ended in the final prohibition of heathen rites. It closes, not only with the deposition of the last shadowy Emperor of the West, but with the practical extinction of Roman power in the great prefecture of the Gauls. Perhaps even more obvious are the lines drawn by the fullest authorities for our subject. 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.