Author: Morrison I. Swift Publisher: ISBN: 9781331773702 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 146
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Excerpt from Advent of Empire Advent of Empire The Gun is God The God of the world of the haughty moderns, The holy Christ of atoned earth's saints, Is the ardent gun that belches killing, Exploding shell in a thousand brains. Love is cold as the glacial ice Of the ages that polished the anchored rocks; Heart is dead as the plague-marred corpse, Or mummy parched at the source of Time. Hate is Lord of the white man's virtues, Death the sceptre and crown thereof; Beg for life, ye weak, and listen: Swish of sword is Law of Love. 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.
Author: Frank Burr Marsh Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267628285 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Excerpt from The Founding of the Roman Empire The first chapter of this work was originally read as a paper before the American Historical Association and was published in their proceedings for 1913. It has, however, been extensively revised and in part rewritten. 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.
Author: Gerald Thornton Hankin Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780666660435 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 402
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Excerpt from The Story of the Empire This IS the third volume Of the series of Empire text-books written for the League Of the Empire in accordance with the bequest Of the late Mr. Spitzel. It is intended both for the middle forms Of Secon dary schools and for the highest classes of Elemen tary schools. In view Of this latter Object, and Of the fact that the vast majority Of future citizens Of the Empire receive all the preparation they ever get for the intelligent exercise of their votes in Elemen tary schools, special stress has been laid upon Citizen ship upon those factors in History which have had the most direct and important bearing upon the development Of the Empire, and upon the rights, duties, and responsibilities of the citizen. Minutiae Of facts and dates have been reduced to the narrowest limits but the connection between History and Geography has been emphasized throughout, and an attempt has been made to explain in the Simplest possible language What the British Empire is, and how it grew. 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.
Author: Edward Gibbon Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265607398 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 644
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Excerpt from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire A countty. which I have known and loved from my early youth; Under a mild government, amidi'c a beauteous. 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.
Author: John Pentland Mahaffy Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780365212225 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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Excerpt from Alexander's Empire The story of the conquests of Alexander has been told many times, and his name is familiar in our mouths as household words; but the history of the different portions of the great Empire that he founded, how they rapidly gained and lost their independence, and finally were absorbed into the dominions of Rome, is by no means equally well known. 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.
Author: Henry Dodwell Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781451011074 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 302
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Excerpt from Dupleix and Clive: The Beginning of Empire The following pages are based principally upon the East India Company's records preserved under my own care at Madras, the Bengal Records preserved at the India Office, and the Orme MSS., also preserved at the India Office. I have further consulted the Admiralty and War Office papers at the Public Record Office, various MS. collections at the British Museum, with the Miscellaneous Letters Received and the Home-Miscellaneous series at the India Office, and papers lodged in the archives of the French Ministry of the Colonies and at Pondichery. I must acknowledge with great gratitude the unvarying courtesy and ready help I received from the various custodians of these papers. Perhaps M. Martineau, late Governor of the French Establishments in India, and Mr. W. Foster, C.I.E., of the India Office, will allow me thus publicly to announce my special debt to their wide knowledge and experience. I am also under great obligations to Mr. S. C. Hill, not only for numerous suggestions, indications, and references in the course of my research, but also as the editor of Bengal 1756-57, a collection of documents which I have found it impossible to supplement. Above all, I am obliged to Mr. Mark Hunter, of the Indian Educational Service, who was to have been the author of the present work. When he found his other engagements too pressing, he not only suggested my undertaking it, but also gave me with the greatest generosity his MS. collections, of which I have made extensive use. My indebtedness to printed works is too extensive to be here particularised, but is, I hope, fully indicated in my footnotes and the appended Bibliography. 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.
Author: H. G. Rawlinson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266394723 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
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Excerpt from Bactria: The History of a Forgotten Empire I should, perhaps, add that as this work is intended for the general reader, the tiresome diacritical marks which are the fashion in Oriental Works have been. 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.
Author: Brooks Adams Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484814683 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
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Excerpt from The New Empire Similarly the French, in emergency, have always resorted to massacre to overcome obstruction, from the crusades against the Albigenses in the thirteenth century to the Commune of Paris in the nineteenth. It was not only Saint Bartholomew, and the persecu tions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which brought about the Terror of I 793; it was rather a thousand nameless butcheries like those which occurred during the reign of Louis XIV. The incapacity of the French to ameliorate their fiscal system generated an unequal taxation which pro voked revolt, and revolt caused repression frightful in ferocity. At Rennes in 167 5, as a punishment for insubordination, the town was given up to pillage, and la Rue Haute, the main street, was destroyed. The inhabitants, Old men, women, and children, were driven forth into the fields without a refuge, with out food, and without a place to sleep. They perished from exposure and want. 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.
Author: Theodor Flathe Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781332710362 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 470
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Excerpt from The Napoleonic Empire These humiliations in icted upon the king were in some degree miti gated by the invitation to establish as a companion to the Confederation of the Rhine a North German Confederation under the direction of Prussia - an empire of North Germany. It appeared to be for Prussia a duty of self-preservation to draw about her the neighboring remnants of the empire which was lying in ruins; but it was soon found that Napoleon was secretly placing difficulties in the way of the plan proposed by him self. The Hanseatic towns, at the same time that he offered them as indemnification for the King of Naples, were dissuaded from acceding, since the emperor desired to take their independence into his special protection the Elector of Saxony was warq not to suffer himself to be hurried on by Prussia. The Elector of Hesse turned toward Prussia first, since, in his longing for the possessions of his cousin of Darmstadt, he found no sympathy from Napoleon, and he subscribed rather unwill ingly on August 20. In the midst of these dragging negotiations there came suddenly on 'august 6 advices from Lucchesini, the ambassador at Paris, that Napoleon had proffered the restoration of Hanover to the house of Guelf as the price of peace with England. Napoleon's denial increased the irritation, since not only was confirmation received from London, but also the intelligence that he had offered Prussian Poland to Russia. This unheard-of affront acted with the force of an electric shock. In order not to repeat the former mistake by a premature dis armament, Haugwitz ordered, on August 9, the mobilization of the army; in silence, however, he cherished the hope that the anxieties excited by the latest advices would be quickly dissipated, and thus the military pre cautionary measures that had been adopted be rendered super uous. 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."
Author: Thomas Keightley Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484469357 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 958
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Excerpt from The Illustrated History of Rome and the Roman Empire In this Second edition a few corrections and improve ments have been made. I am happy to be able to add that the First volume of my History of England, containing the history from the earliest times to the end of the House of Tudor, is in the press, and will be published before mid summer. The Second and concluding volume will follow it with all convenient speed. 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.
Author: Morrison I. Swift
Author: Frank Burr Marsh
Author: Gerald Thornton Hankin
Author: Edward Gibbon
Author: John Pentland Mahaffy
Author: Henry Dodwell
Author: H. G. Rawlinson
Author: Brooks Adams
Author: Theodor Flathe
Author: Thomas Keightley