Lecture on the Study of History, Applied to the Progress of Civilization (Classic Reprint) - Brossura

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Let us, however, open the voltn'ne of history itself the archives of mat1ki11d,and record of their progress and their cheeks. It is a marvellous book, rife With eloquent and enduring lessons - a great and living work of the Deity, made manifest through the works of his crea'tures - 'a real, yet intelligent, tower of Bel as, 'where all the nations that had, or have, existence on earth come for their lost centuries and tongues - their morals and their eus-tomsmtheir reverses and their triumphs. One hasty and eagle glance at that great chartulary of the human race, and see how it reveals the work of civilization, successively spreading its in ioads ove1 the weild.

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ISBN 10:  048454330X ISBN 13:  9780484543309
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