Lectures on Modern History

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LibriVox recording of Lectures on Modern History by William Smyth. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. [Professor's Smyth's] object is to teach students, and readers generally, how to read history for themselves; to show them the path, and furnish them the best lights for pursuing it; to enable them to form a just estimate of the principal authors, and to bring forward in bold relief those prominent parts of history to which their attention should chiefly be directed. His plan is unfolded with clearness and precision in his Introductory Lecture. It is broad and comprehensive, and such as could not have been carried out, in the finished manner it has been, without a critical examination of a large number of authors, and close and patient meditation upon the contents of their works. There is nothing superficial or ill digested; nothing taken at second hand; the lecturer's mind is brought to bear, with its own original vigor, upon all the subjects that come under his notice; his opinions are frankly and fearlessly expressed, and sustained by a force of reasoning which rarely fails to produce conviction, never to inspire respect and confidence. He adopts a method at once perspicuou…

Directors & creators

William Smyth

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;history; society; french revolution; england; Constitution; Romans; France; Cromwell; henry viii; laws; Reformation; Switzerland; walpole; Maria Theresa; whigs; hume; Gibbon; Montesquieu; Henry IV; modern; house of commons; progress; george ii; peace of westphalia; wars; lord north; long parliament; louis xi; stamp act; united states -- history; history modern; mirabeau; united states -- history bibliography; united states -- history -- bibliography; lord chatham; peace of passau; elector palatine; lord bolingbroke; house of bourbon; sir robert walpole; constitution of france; history modern -- 16th century; history modern -- 17th century; history modern -- 18th century; history modern -- popular works; history modern -- historiography; north america -- history -- bibliography

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