Excerpt from Larned's History of the World, Vol. 1 TO do so is to Obtain the real teaching of History, - to find its meanings, -to draw its les sons, - to enjoy it with the deepest interest it can awaken in our minds. Not to do so is either to miss everything in it worth reading or else to get no more than the entertainment that the gossip of a newspaper may give. Events that are dealt with like unstrung beads, - broken, that is, from the relations that thread them, and thrown in mere handfuls together, - may have some ...
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Excerpt from Larned's History of the World, Vol. 1 TO do so is to Obtain the real teaching of History, - to find its meanings, -to draw its les sons, - to enjoy it with the deepest interest it can awaken in our minds. Not to do so is either to miss everything in it worth reading or else to get no more than the entertainment that the gossip of a newspaper may give. Events that are dealt with like unstrung beads, - broken, that is, from the relations that thread them, and thrown in mere handfuls together, - may have some fragmentary, anecdotal interest in themselves, but they are not History. Not a little, however. 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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