Excerpt from The Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of the Britannic Empire: Including Indian Institutions Some Maps are inserted in this volume and the careful student will probably find them the most useful parts of it. By continually referring to them, and by frequently copying them, he will get the main features of the geography of our Empire mapped upon his brain; and be will then acquire historical, statistical, and political knowledge respecting each part of that Empire with ease, perspicacity, and retentiveness. ...
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Excerpt from The Imperial and Colonial Constitutions of the Britannic Empire: Including Indian Institutions Some Maps are inserted in this volume and the careful student will probably find them the most useful parts of it. By continually referring to them, and by frequently copying them, he will get the main features of the geography of our Empire mapped upon his brain; and be will then acquire historical, statistical, and political knowledge respecting each part of that Empire with ease, perspicacity, and retentiveness. Otherwise he may experience the truth of the remarks of the old Greek historian Polybius, in the thirty-seventh section of his third book, that when the student has no geographical knowledge of the places mentioned, a talk about places is to him as if his would-be informant spoke in an unknown tongue, or uttered mere gibberish.' 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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