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THE

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HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION,

FROM THE

FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

BY F. GUIZOT,

THE PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE;
AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION OF 1640."

TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM HAZLITT.

VOLUME II.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.

PHILADELPHIA:

GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT STREET.

M DCCC XLVI.

1529.7 H5038.28.7

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1875, March 22. Walker Begnest.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Lectures were delivered by M. Guizot, in the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, at the Old Sorbonne, now the seat of the Faculté des Lettres, of Paris, on alternate days with MM. Cousin and Villemain, a triad of lecturers whose brilliant exhibitions, the crowds which thronged their lecture-rooms, and the stir they excited in the active and aspiring minds so numerous among the French youth, the future historian will commemorate as among the remarkable appearances of that important

era.

The first portion of these Lectures, those comprising the General History of Civilization in Europe, have already appeared. The Lectures on the History of Civilization in France, are now for the first time translated. Of these Lectures, it is most justly observed by the Edinburgh Review: "There is a consistency, a coherence, a comprehensiveness, and what the Germans would term many-sidedness, in the manner of M. Guizot's fulfilment of his task, that manifests him one to whom the whole subject is familiar; that exhibits a full

possession of the facts which have any important bearing upon his conclusions; and a deliberateness, a matureness, an entire absence of haste or crudity, in his explanations of historical phenomena, which give evidence of a general scheme so well wrought out and digested beforehand, that the labors of research and of thought necessary for the whole work, seem to have been performed before any part was committed to paper."

CONTENTS.

FIRST LECTURE.

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