tailieunhanh - Title: A History of Art for BHistoric Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Thirdeginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Painting

The blending of fact and fancy which men call legend reached its fullest and richest expression in the golden age of Greece, and thus it is to Greek mythology that one must turn for the best form of any legend which foreshadows history. Yet the prevalence of legends regarding flight, existing in the records of practically every race, shows that this form of transit was a dream of many peoples--man always wanted to fly, and imagined means of flight. In this age of steel, a very great part of the inventive genius of man has gone into devices intended to facilitate transport, both of men and. | Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third 1 A free download from http Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third The Project Gutenberg eBook Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third Author Horace Walpole Release Date December 28 2005 eBook 17411 Language English Character set encoding ISO-646-US US-ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORIC DOUBTS ON THE LIFE AND REIGN OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD E-text prepared by Marjorie Fulton Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third 2 HISTORIC DOUBTS OF THE LIFE AND REIGN OF KING RICHARD THE THIRD. by MR. HORACE WALPOLE. L histoire n est fondee que sur le tomoignage des Auteurs qui nous l ont transmisse. Il importe donc extremement pour la scavoir de bien connoitre quels etoient ces Auteurs. Rien n est a negliger en ce point le tems ou ils ont vecu leur naissance leur patrie le part qu ils ont eue aux affaires les moyens par lesquels ils ont ete instruits et l interet qu ils y pouvaient prendre sont des circonstances essentielles qu il n est pas permis d ignorer dela depend le plus ou le moins d autorite qu ils doivent avoir et sans cette connoissance on courra risque tres souvent de prendre pour guide un Historien de mauvaisse foi ou du moins mal informe. Hist. de l Acad. des Inscript. Vol. X. LONDON First Published 1768 PREFACE So incompetent has the generality of historians been for the province they have undertaken that it is almost a question whether if the dead of past ages could revive they would be able to reconnoitre the events of their own times as transmitted to us by ignorance .