tailieunhanh - A MODERN HISTORY, FROM THE TIME OF LUTHER TO THE FALL OF NAPOLEON. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

In preparing this History, I make no claim to original and profound investigations; but the arrangement, the style, and the sentiments, are my own. I have simply attempted to condense the great and varied subjects which are presented, so as to furnish a connected narrative of what is most vital in the history of the last three hundred years, avoiding both minute details and elaborate disquisitions. It has been my aim to write a book, which should be neither a chronological table nor a philosophical treatise, but a work adapted to the wants of young people in the various. | A MODERN HISTORY FROM THE TIME OF LUTHER TO THE FALL OF NAPOLEON. FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. BY JOHN LORD . LECTURER ON HISTORY. PHILADELPHIA CHARLES DESILVER CLAXTON REMSEN HAFFELFINGER J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO. NEW York D. APPLETON CO. BOSTON NICHOLS HALL. Cincinnati ROBERT CLARKE CO WILSON HINKLE CO. SAN Francisco a. L. BANCROFT CO. Chicago S. C. Griggs CO. Charleston S. C. J. M. Greer SON EDWARD Perry Son. Raleigh N. C. Williams LAMBETH. Baltimore Md. Cushings Bailey W. J. C Dulaney CO. New Orleans La. Stevens Seymour. Savannah Ga. J. M. Cooper Co. Macon Ga. J. M. BOARDMAN. Augusta Ga. Thos. Richards SON. Richmond Va. WOODHOUSE PARHAM. 1874. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1849 by JOHN LORD In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. In preparing this History I make no claim to original and profound investigations but the arrangement the style and the sentiments are my own. I have simply attempted to condense the great and varied subjects which are presented so as to furnish a connected narrative of what is most vital in the history of the last three hundred years avoiding both minute details and elaborate disquisitions. It has been my aim to write a book which should be neither a chronological table nor a philosophical treatise but a work adapted to the wants of young people in the various stages of education and which it is hoped will also prove interesting to those of maturer age who have not the leisure to read extensive works and yet who wish to understand the connection of great events since the Protestant Reformation. Those characters institutions reforms and agitations which have had the greatest influence in advancing society only have been described and these not to the extent which will satisfy the learned or the curious. Dates and names battles and sieges have not been disregarded but more attention has been given to those ideas and to those men by whose influence and agency great .