tion>John Lord
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon
For the Use of Schools and Colleges
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066119867
Table of Contents
PRIME MINISTERS OF ENGLAND SINCE THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII.
GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GREAT BRITAIN † denotes date of decease.
GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE BOURBONS. † denotes date of decease.
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
