Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History Delivered at Cambridge June 11 1895 written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1st baron) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by Lord Acton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A Lecture on the Study of History by Lord Acton
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Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History Delivered at Cambridge June 11 1895 written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History" from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. English historian (1834-1902).
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lecture on the Study of History is a thought-provoking work by Victorian historian, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, also known as Baron Acton. Originally delivered at Cambridge University in 1895, this lecture reflects on the importance of studying history and the lessons we can learn from the past. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the study of history and its relevance to our lives today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lecture on the Study of History is a thought-provoking work by Victorian historian, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, also known as Baron Acton. Originally delivered at Cambridge University in 1895, this lecture reflects on the importance of studying history and the lessons we can learn from the past. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the study of history and its relevance to our lives today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Lecture on the Study of History" from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. English historian (1834-1902).
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This profound discourse by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton delves into the unity of modern history, exploring its intricate threads and timeless significance. Acton's words resonate with the belief that history holds the key to understanding the present and shaping the future. With insightful reflections on the link between history and politics, Acton highlights the practical value of historical knowledge in navigating the complexities of governance and societal progress.
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Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fellow Students, I look back to-day to a time before the middle of the century, when I wasUNITY OF MODERN HISTORY reading at Edinburgh, and fervently wishing to come to this University. At three colleges I applied for admission, and, as things then were, I was refused by all. Here, from the first, I vainly fixed my hopes, and here, in a happier hour, after five-and-forty years, they are at last fulfilled. I desire first to speak to you of that which I may reasonably call the Unity of Modern History, as an easy approach to questions necessary to be met on the threshold by any one occupying this place, which my predecessor has made so formidable to me by the reflected lustre of his name. You have often heard it said that Modern History is a subject to which neither beginning nor end can be assigned. No beginning, because the dense web of the fortunes of man is woven without a void; because, in society as in nature, the structure is continuous, and we can trace things back uninterruptedly, until we dimly descry the Declaration of Independence in the forests of Germany. No end, because, on the same principle, history made and history making are scientifically inseparable and separately unmeaning. "Politics," said Sir John Seeley, "are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literatureLINK BETWEEN HISTORY AND POLITICS when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics." Everybody perceives the sense in which this is true. For the science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the stream of history, like grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action, and a power that goes to the making of the future. In France, such is the weight attached to the study of our own time, that there is an appointed course of contemporary history, with appropriate textbooks. That is a chair which, in the progressive division of labour by which both science and government prosper, may some day be founded in this country. Meantime, we do well to acknowledge the points at which the two epochs diverge. For the contemporary differs from the modern in this, that many of its facts cannot by us be definitely ascertained. The living do not give up their secrets with the candour of the dead; one key is always excepted, and a generation passes before we can ensure accuracy. Common report and outward seeming are bad copies of the reality, as the initiated know it. Even of a thing so memorable as the war of 1870, the true cause is still obscure; much that we believed has been scattered to the winds in the last six months, and further revelations by important witnesses are about to appear. The use of history turns far more on certainty than on abundance of acquired information. Beyond the question of certainty is the question of detachment. The process by which principles are discovered and appropriated is other than that by which, in practice, they are applied; and our most sacred and disinterested convictions ought to take shape in the tranquil regions of the air, above the tumult and the tempest of active life. For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one for opposition and another for office....
Download or read book A Lecture on the Study of History written by John Dalberg-Acton and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part of "The Best of the Online Library of Liberty" which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. A thematic list with links to HTML versions of the texts is available here. Lord Acton's inaugural lecture following his appointment to the Regius professorship in Cambridge is a tour de force of classical liberal scholarship. Of the many issues covered in his lecture, the role of ideas in bringing about historical change and the place of moral judgements in the writing of history are particularly noteworthy.
Download or read book Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History written by John Acton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO DL (10 January 1834 - 19 June 1902) was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. From 1837 to 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet. He is perhaps best known for the remark in a letter to an Anglican bishop, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. Through extensive travels, Acton spent much time in the chief intellectual centres reading the actual correspondence of historical personalities. Among his friends were Montalembert, Tocqueville, Fustel de Coulanges, Bluntschli, von Sybel and Ranke. In 1855, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Shropshire. A year later, he was attached to Lord Granville's mission to Moscow as British representative at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia. Acton's reputation for learning gradually spread abroad, largely through Gladstone's influence. Gladstone found him a valuable political adviser, and in 1892, when the Liberal government came in, Lord Acton was made a lord-in-waiting. Finally, in 1895, on the death of Sir John Seeley, Lord Rosebery appointed him to the Regius Professorship of Modern History at Cambridge. He delivered two courses of lectures on the French Revolution and on Modern History, but it was in private that the effects of his teaching were felt most. The Cambridge Modern History, though he did not live to see it, was planned under his editorship.
Download or read book Inaugural lecture on The Study of History written by Charles William Chadwick Oman and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inaugural lecture on The Study of History" by Charles William Chadwick Oman. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
