Excerpt from After-Thoughts of Foreign Travel: In Historic Lands and Capital Cities These after-thoughts of two and a half years abroad, are not offered as exhaustive essays, but rather suggestive compends of subjects considered. They were first presented at some intervals in lec tures, which will account for their variety of style and method. Their aim is to direct special atten tion to those countries and events, whence has come our civilization. Accordingly, I have gleaned from the places visited and studied, such facts ...
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Excerpt from After-Thoughts of Foreign Travel: In Historic Lands and Capital Cities These after-thoughts of two and a half years abroad, are not offered as exhaustive essays, but rather suggestive compends of subjects considered. They were first presented at some intervals in lec tures, which will account for their variety of style and method. Their aim is to direct special atten tion to those countries and events, whence has come our civilization. Accordingly, I have gleaned from the places visited and studied, such facts and sug gestions, as would naturally induce others to investi gate and gather up from foreign lands and men that instruction and knowledge, which tend to hallow the past, enrich the present, and ennoble the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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