Excerpt from A History of England: Early and Middle Ages to 1485 But, if it is valuable to learn the main facts by heart, much more is it valuable to understand them. The memory of them will gain rather than lose by ample illustration and discussion. Here, therefore, there is no excuse for economy of detail; and what space has been gained by the suppression of smaller issues may usefully be given to a more generous treatment of the large. Detail is of two sorts, or rather may serve a double purpose. It supplies the means ...
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Excerpt from A History of England: Early and Middle Ages to 1485 But, if it is valuable to learn the main facts by heart, much more is it valuable to understand them. The memory of them will gain rather than lose by ample illustration and discussion. Here, therefore, there is no excuse for economy of detail; and what space has been gained by the suppression of smaller issues may usefully be given to a more generous treatment of the large. Detail is of two sorts, or rather may serve a double purpose. It supplies the means to a completer judgment, discovers the springs of human character and action, reveals the concrete beginnings from which great historical movements have been born. But, besides this, there is another gain. Detail clothes the dry bones of fact with the warm substance of reality. It will make even the dull tale live; and the trifling gossip of a Froissart or a Pepys stirs in us an interest, which the vague generalisations of a text book fail to move. Such details will not confuse the main impressions, but rather strengthen them and so, wherever an episode seems worth mention ing at all, I have tried within the limits of my space to tell it properly. From this it follows that, though some of the chapters are of middling length, much of their matter will make easy reading. As will be seen, they cover approximately a dozen pages each. Each is intended to form an allowance suited to an hours work of preparation, and each forms in some real sense a separate and connected whole. Nothing perhaps 13 more destructive of a learners interest and appreciation than to break off his reading 1n the middle of a chapter, or to take it up again at some purely artificial and arbitrary date. 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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