Massachusetts: Its Historians And Its History; An Object Lesson
The book Massachusetts: Its Historians And Its History; An Object Lesson was written by author Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915 Here you can read free online of Massachusetts: Its Historians And Its History; An Object Lesson book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Massachusetts: Its Historians And Its History; An Object Lesson a good or bad book?
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He dilates on the blood-sealed devotion of the martyrs to the faith he professes, and the valor of the soldiers and the sailors of the land of his birth ; he execrates those who oppressed the one, and depreciates those who fought against the other. And so it has come about that we Americans are only just beginning to read the record, at once long and obscure, through eyes neither necessarily English nor Protestant nor republican. In the literature of our mother tongue there is one great example... of the opposite method of historical treatment; and just a century ago, in illustration, as it were, of the truth of what I say, the President of the college here felt called upon to make public a denial of the rumored use made of that example as a text-book for the stu- dents.^ But the world does move, and the History of the Decline aiid Fall of the Roman JEmpire still 1 For the Centinsl. Mr. Russell : — A writer in tlie Centinel of the last Saturday, under the signature of Christianus, says " that an ahridgement of Gibbon's history (if his information be true) is directed to make a part of the studies of the young gentlemen at our University." I now beg leave through the channel of your paper, to acquaint the -writer, as also the publick, that his information is not true.
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