Studies in General History: Teacher's Manual

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1901

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7 ページ - ... the contrary, moral causes are the first here. It is the action of the will that causes the unconscious habit; it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end ; it is the silent toil of the first generation that becomes the transmitted aptitude of the next. Here physical causes do not create the moral, but moral create the physical ; here the beginning is by the higher energy, the conservation and propagation only by the lower.
15 ページ - Saint-Simon, the Duke of. Memoirs of the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency. Translated from the French, in an abridged edition of three octavo volumes, by Bayle St. John. London, 1876. Three volumes. $6.00. This book, says Adams, was probably " the severest blow the Bourbons ever received.
10 ページ - MILITARY AND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, AND AT THE PERIOD OF THE RENAISSANCE.
12 ページ - Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries, from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henri IV, newly translated from the French editions , with variations and additions from many celebrated mss.
10 ページ - ... omitting nothing essential ; written with grace, and conceived and arranged with consummate ability. " The most famous of Guizot's works. The lectures made a profound impression at the time of their appearance — indeed, formed an epoch in the history of education ; and even at the present day perhaps no other historical book is capable of stirring more earnest and fruitful thought in a thoughtful student.
1 ページ - ... helpful, social union, as against the law of the " struggle for existence." After noting these points, the teacher may act his own judgment as to how far he may wisely pursue a study, materials for which he will find ready to his hand in every week's news, and in any population among which he lives. least two days should be devoted to this study, the second of which may be profitably spent in a general conversation in regard to the points suggested by the questions. The aim of the teacher in...
9 ページ - I now discharge my promise, and complete my design, of writing the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, both in the West and the East. The whole period extends from the age of Trajan and the Antonines, to the taking of Constantinople by Mahomet the Second; and includes a review of the Crusades, and the state of Rome during the middle ages.
15 ページ - To each well-defined period of our history is given a little volume made up of extracts from the chronicles, state papers, memoirs, and letters of the time, as also from other contemporary literature, the whole chronologically arranged and chosen so as to give a living picture of the effect produced upon each generation by the political, religious, social, and intellectual movements in which it took part.

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