TAILIEUCHUNG - The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4

Our modern civilization is built up on three great corner-stones, three inestimably valuable heritages from the past. The Græco-Roman civilization gave us our arts and our philosophies, the bases of intellectual power. The Hebrews bequeathed to us the religious idea, which has saved man from despair, has been the potent stimulus to two thousand years of endurance and hope. The Teutons gave us a healthy, sturdy, uncontaminated physique, honest bodies and clean minds, the lack of which had made further progress impossible to the ancient world. This last is what made necessary the barbarian overthrow of Rome, if the world was still to advance. The slowly. | The Great Events by Famous Historians Volume 1 The Great Events by Famous Historians Volume The Project Gutenberg eBook The Great Events by Famous Historians Volume 4 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 Volume 4 Author Various Release Date March 12 2005 eBook 15345 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS VOLUME 4 E-text prepared by David Kline Martin Pettit and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team The Great Events by Famous Historians Volume THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS 2 VOLUME IV 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 IV The National Alumni 1905 CONTENTS VOLUME IV An Outline Narrative of the Great Events CHARLES F. HORNE Visigoths Pillage Rome . 410 EDWARD GIBBON Huns Invade the Eastern Roman Empire Attila Dictates a Treaty of Peace . 441 EDWARD GIBBON The English Conquest of Britain . 449-579 JOHN R. GREEN CHARLES KNIGHT Attila Invades Western Europe Battle of Châlons . 451 SIR EDWARD S. CREASY EDWARD GIBBON Foundation of .

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