TAILIEUCHUNG - The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2

Earth's upward struggle has been baffled by so many stumbles that critics have not been lacking to suggest that we do not advance at all, but only swing in circles, like a squirrel in its cage. Certain it is that each ancient civilization seemed to bear in itself the seeds of its own destruction. Yet it may be held with equal truth that each new power, rising above the ruins of the last, held something nobler, was borne upward by some truth its rival could not reach. At no period is this more evident than in the five centuries immediately preceding the Christian era. Persia, Greece,. | The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 1 The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. The Project Gutenberg eBook The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 2 by Various Edited by Rossiter Johnson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 2 Author Various Release Date November 17 2003 eBook 10114 Language English Chatacter set encoding iso-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS VOL. 2 The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 2 E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland David King and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS VOLUME II A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD S HISTORY. EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY WITH THOROUGH INDICES BIBLIOGRAPHIES CHRONOLOGIES AND COURSES OF READING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON . ASSOCIATE EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE . JOHN RUDD . 1905 BINDING Vol. II The binding of this volume is a facsimile of the original on exhibition in the Bibliothèque Nationale. It was executed by the Royal Binder Clovis Eve for Marie de Médicis Queen Consort of Henry IV of France. She was a great lover of fine arts and especially of rich bindings. The one here shown was her special pride. It shows her arms--the arms of France and Tuscany--surrounded with the cordelière the sign of her widowhood accompanied by the .

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