General History of Civilization in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution |
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... common method . Yet such works , from the nature of the case , can be but little more to the young student than a barren mass of dates , names , and dead facts . We might as well expect to gain a correct and lively impression of the ...
... common method . Yet such works , from the nature of the case , can be but little more to the young student than a barren mass of dates , names , and dead facts . We might as well expect to gain a correct and lively impression of the ...
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... common - to form one society under one same central power .. 1st . Attempt at theocratic organiza tion ..... Italian republics - their vices ...... 220 Cities of the south of France ...... 222 Crusade against the Albigenses .... 222 The ...
... common - to form one society under one same central power .. 1st . Attempt at theocratic organiza tion ..... Italian republics - their vices ...... 220 Cities of the south of France ...... 222 Crusade against the Albigenses .... 222 The ...
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... common stock of European civilization , been obliged to undergo in France a new preparation : it is from France , as from a second country more rich and fertile , that they have started forth to make the conquest of Europe . There is ...
... common stock of European civilization , been obliged to undergo in France a new preparation : it is from France , as from a second country more rich and fertile , that they have started forth to make the conquest of Europe . There is ...
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... common signification of this word that we must investigate . In the usual , general accep- tation of terms , there will nearly always be found more truth than in the seemingly more precise and rigorous definitions of science . It is common ...
... common signification of this word that we must investigate . In the usual , general accep- tation of terms , there will nearly always be found more truth than in the seemingly more precise and rigorous definitions of science . It is common ...
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... common sense of mankind , we shall arrive much near- er to the knowledge of the fact itself , by than attempting to give our own scientific definition of it , though this might at first appear more clear and precise . I shall commence ...
... common sense of mankind , we shall arrive much near- er to the knowledge of the fact itself , by than attempting to give our own scientific definition of it , though this might at first appear more clear and precise . I shall commence ...
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absolute power affairs ancient appears attempt authority barbarian barbarism became bishops burgesses called cause character Charlemagne Charles Charles VII Christian Church ciety circumstances clergy common condition council course crusades desire ecclesiastical elements emperors endeavored England epoch established European civilization exercised existence fact feudal system fiefs fifteenth force France free cities free inquiry French Gaul Germany human mind ideas importance independence individual influence institutions intellectual interest Italy justice king lecture legitimate sovereignty liberty Louis XIV manners means ment moral municipal nations nature never opinions party period political Pope possession prevailed principle progress reform regard reign relations religion religious respect result revolution Roman empire Rome Saracens sentiments sixteenth century social system society sovereigns Spain spirit States-general struggle Suevi superior temporal theocracy things tion truth twelfth century unity various Visigoths William of Tyre
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Page 48 - At the end of the fourth century, and the beginning of the fifth, Christianity was no longer a simple belief, it was an institution — it had formed itself into a corporate body.
Page 25 - Wherever the exterior condition of man becomes enlarged, quickened, and improved ; wherever the intellectual nature of man distinguishes itself by its energy, brilliancy, and its grandeur ; wherever these two signs concur, and they often do so, notwithstanding the gravest imperfections in the social system, there man proclaims and applauds civilization.
Page 249 - The period of our inquiry must extend from the beginning of the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century ; for this period embraces, so to speak, the life of this event from its birth to its termination. All historical events have in some sort a determinate career. Their consequences are prolonged...
Page 4 - NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. MDCCCXLH. V ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Conrt of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Page 15 - BEING called upon to give a course of lectures, and having considered what subject would be most agreeable and convenient to fill up the short space allowed us from now to the close of the year, it has occurred to me that a general sketch of the History of Modern Europe, considered more especially with regard to the progress of civilization — that a general survey of the history of European civilization, of its origin, its progress, its end, its character, would be the most profitable subject upon...
Page 30 - Human societies are born, live, and die, upon the earth ; there they accomplish their destinies. But they contain not the whole man. After his engagement to society there still remains in him the more noble part of his nature ; those high faculties by which he elevates himself to God, to a future life, and to the unknown blessings of an invisible world.
Page 188 - This is true to a certain extent; though some of these assertions may be disputed. But what cannot be disputed is this influence, this general effect of the crusades upon the human mind on the one hand, and the state of society on the other. They drew society out of a very narrow road, to throw it into new and infinitely broader paths; they began that transformation of the various elements of European society into governments and nations, which is the characteristic of modern civilization.
Page 18 - ... to run — a destiny for it to accomplish ; whether nations have not transmitted from age to age something to their successors which is never lost, but which grows and continues as a common stock, and will thus be carried on to the end of all things. For my part...