TAILIEUCHUNG - The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Gazing across the broader field of universal history, one comes more and more to overlook the merely temporary, constantly shifting border lines of states, and to see Western Europe as a whole, to watch its nations as a single people guided by similar developments of the mind, impelled by similar stirrings of the heart, taking part in but a single story, the marvellous tale of man's advance. This sense of an all-enfolding unity, an ever-advancing common destiny, sinks weakest perhaps in the period we now approach. The nations seem sharply separated in their careers. In the preceding age the power of Spain and the fanaticism of. | The Great Events by Famous Historians 1 The Great Events by Famous Historians The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Events by Famous Historians Volume 11 by Various 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 Volume 11 Author Various Editor Rossiter Johnson Charles Horne John Rudd Release Date June 19 2008 EBook 25821 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT EVENTS VOLUME 11 Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http . Illustration The Imperial Austrian Councillors are thrown out of the window of the castle of the Hradschin at Prague by the enraged Bohemian Deputies thus precipitating the Thirty Years War The Great Events by Famous Historians Painting by Vacslav Brozik 2 THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS 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 . With a staff of specialists VOLUME XI Illustration Decorative The National Alumni COPYRIGHT 1905 BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI CONTENTS VOLUME XI PAGE An Outline Narrative of the Great Events xiii CHARLES F. HORNE Henry Hudson Explores the Hudson River . 1609 1 HENRY R. CLEVELAND Galileo Overthrows Ancient

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