Author : John Lauris Blake
Release : 2015-07-06
Genre : Social Science
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The Historical Reader (Classic Reprint) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Historical Reader (Classic Reprint) write by John Lauris Blake. This book was released on 2015-07-06. The Historical Reader (Classic Reprint) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The Historical Reader The object of this Volume is to enable young persons, when learning to read at school, to acquire a knowledge of some of the most interesting and useful portions of history. A book consisting chiefly of extracts filled with real incidents, which equal, if not surpass, the most successful efforts of imagination in romance, cannot fail to captivate the attention of youth; and it is moreover believed, that few thus made acquainted with the extraordinary events described in the Historical Reader, will have so little curiosity, were there no other motive to influence them, as not to be inspired with a strong desire for further reading on this important subject - that few, at least, will have so little curiosity as not to fill up the chasms, connecting together the prominent parts here given. It may possibly be apprehended by some, that a book, like the Historical Reader, which contains accounts of battles, massacres, and other tragical scenes, will cause young persons, especially, to place a false estimate on human conduct - that, in the same degree as they thence fail duly to appreciate real goodness, they will become the less inclined to it; and in tho same degree as they become familiarized with vice, they will view it with less abhorrence, and will consequently be the less secured against temptations to it. The Author would not deny that this may sometimes be the case; but ho does maintain, that there is no necessary tendency in history, to produce these deleterious effects in tho human character. Those who read history, must blame themselves or their teachers, if suitable moral reflections are not made as they pass along. If history were studied a it ought, the most tragical relations which disfigure its ensanguined pages might be made conducive to our instruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.