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"This must be considered as by for the most valuable version of the works of ’The Father of History.' The history of Herodotus was probably not written until near the end of his life: it is certain that he had been collecting materials for it during many years. There was scarcely a city of importance in Greece, Asia Minor, Syria. Persia, Arabia, or Egypt, that he had not visited and studied: and almost every page of bis work contains results of his personal inquiries and observations. Many things laughed at for centuries as impossible are now found to have been described in strict accordance with truth."—Dr. C. K. Adam’s Manual of Historical Literature.
"One of the best of the smaller histories of Greece."—Dr. C. K. Adam’s Manual of Historical Literature.
"The peculiar feature of the present work is that it is founded on Hellenic sources. I have not hesitated to follow the Father of History in portraying the heroism and the sacrifices of the Hellenes in their first war for independence, nor, in delineating the character of that epoch, to form my judgment largely from the records he has left us."—Extract from Preface.
"In the preparation of the present volume I have conscientiously examined nearly every book—Greek, German, French, or English—written on Homer. But my great teacher and guide has been Homer himself."—From the Preface.
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Dr. Arnold’s colossal reputation is founded on this great work.
Mr. Merivale’s undertaking is nothing less than to bridge over no small portion of the interval between the interrupted work of Arnold and the commencement of Gibbon; and he has proved himself no unworthy successor to the two most gifted historians of Rome known to English literature.
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"A work that has justly taken high rank in the historical literature of modern England. Some of his chapters must long be regarded as admirable specimens of elegant literal workmanship. The author begins his history with the gradual transfer or the old Republic to the imperialism of the Cæsars, and ends it with the age of the Antonines. It therefore exactly fills the gap between Mommsen and Gibbon."—Dr. C. K. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
"Mr. Jehu Baker has rendered a great service to English-speaking people by producing a new and admirable translation of Montesquieu's ’Considerations on the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans.’ But Mr. Baker has by no means confined himself to the simple work of translation. Many foot-notes have been added throughout the volume, and each chapter is followed by an extended and elaborate note."—Boston Courier.
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"An attempt to picture the prevailing characteristics and tendencies of each of the centuries. Its merit is in the fact that the spirit of each age is generally well apprehended and correctly represented."—Dr. C. K. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
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"Undoubtedly the most brilliant and the most popular history ever written in the English language. It shows vast research, extraordinary power in the portraiture of individual character, and a literary skill that is unrivaled."—Dr. C. K. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
"So nearly what its title indicates that any considerable description is unnecessary. In method, however, it is somewhat unusual. Each paragraph begins with a question, which it is the purpose of the paragraph to answer."—Dr. C. K. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
Dryness is generally characteristic of condensed historical outlines; in the present case it is avoided by the vigorous style of the author, and the introduction of interesting anecdotes and episodes that serve to relieve the mind, and bring out in clear light the peculiarities of individual or national character.
The American edition has been revised throughout by Dr. Henry, and enlarged by the introduction of an admirable chapter on American history.
"This truly excellent work supplies, in a very satisfactory manner, a want long felt by every student of history. It is concise in style, comprehensive in matter, lucid in arrangement, and full of ripe scholarship and research."
"The author's purpose was to present an accurate description of the world during the different periods from the ultimate division of the Roman Empire, down to the conquest of Constantinople in the East, and the discovery of America in the West. He has made ample use of the best geographical authorities, and has brought together a vast amount of minute information on subjects that are often very obscure."—Dr. C. K. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
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"A work that deserves to be widely and familiarly known. Its title, however, is so little suggestive of its real character, and is be certain to repel and mislead American readers, that some prefatory words may be useful for the correction of erroneous impressions. It is well known that the term 'Constitution,' in its political sense, has very different significations in England and in this country. With us it means a written instrument. The English have no such written document. By the national Constitution they mean their actual social and political order—the whole body of laws, usages, and precedents, which have been inherited from former generations, and by which the practice of government is regulated. A work upon the English Constitution, therefore, brings us naturally to the direct consideration of the structure and practical working of English political institutions and social life. Mr. Bagehot is not so much a partisan or an advocate as a cool philosophical inquirer, with large knowledge, clear insight, independent opinions, and great freedom from the bias of what he terms ’that territorial sectarianism called patriotism.’ Taking up in succession the Cabinet, the Monarchy, the House of Lords, the House of Commons, he considers them in what may he called their dynamical inter-actions, and in relation to the habits, traditions, culture, and character of the English people. We doubt if there is any other volume so useful for our countrymen to peruse before visiting England."—From the American Preface.
"So vast is the field Mr. Lecky introduces us to, so varied and extensive the information he has collected in it, fetching it from far beyond the limits of his professed subject, that it is impossible in any moderate space to do more than indicate the line he follows.… The work is a valuable contribution to our higher English literature, as well as an admirable guide for those who may care to go in person to the distant fountains from which Mr. Lecky has drawn for them so freely."—London Times.
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"On every ground which should render a history of eighteenth-century England precious to thinking men, Mr. Lecky’s work may be commended. The materials accumulated in these volumes attest an industry more strenuous and comprehensive than that exhibited by Froude or by Macaulay. But it is his supreme merit that he leaves on the reader's mind a conviction that be not only possesses the acuteness which can discern the truth, but the unflinching purpose of truth-telling."-New York Sun.
"Lecky has not chosen to deal with events in chronological order, nor does he present the details of personal, party, or military affairs. The work is rather an attempt to disengage from the great mass of facts those which relate to the permanent forces of the nation, or which indicate some of the more enduring features of national life. The author's manner has led him to treat of the power of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy; of the history of political ideas; of manners and of beliefs, as well as of the increasing power of Parliament and of the press."—Dr. C. K. Adams’s Manual of Historical Literature.
"The author defines his purpose as an attempt to trace that spirit which ’leads men on all occasions to subordinate dogmatic theology to the dictates of reason and of conscience, and, as a necessary consequence, to restrict its influence upon life'—which predisposes men, in history, to attribute all kinds of phenomena to natural rather than miraculous causes; in theology, to esteem succeeding systems the expressions of the wants and aspirations of that religious sentiment which is planted in all men; and, in ethics, to regard as duties only those which conscience reveals to be such."—Dr C. K. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
"A writer of Lecky's mind, with his rich imagination, his fine ability to appreciate imagination in others, and his disposition to be himself an orator upon the written page, could hardly have found a period in British history more harmonious with his literary style than that which witnessed the rise, the ripening, and the fall of the four men whose impress upon the development of the national spirit of Ireland was not limited by the local questions whose discussion constituted their fame."—New York Evening Post.
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"As a manual for the use of the historical student while he is laying the foundation for a knowledge of the English Constitution, this little book is without a superior. It combines accuracy with vivacity, and should be constantly used by the student in the early period of his studies."—Dr. C. K. Adams's Manual of Historical Literature.
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