Simpson's Historical Key: Important Dates and References (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Simpson, J. P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333685416 ISBN 13 : 9781333685416

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

American youth ;because a knowledge of its institutions and of the struggles for their introduction and maintenance is necessar to teach the true character of our institutions, the principles upon which our government is based, and according to which it should be carried on. The histor of the United States, as the record of the first civil government that has ever been founded upon the basis of freedom, furnishes lessons upon popular governments, and upon religious, social, and political freedom, of far greater value than can be derived from the record of any other nation, past or present. Only second.in importance, and hardly inferior in point of interest to our own history, is a knowledge of the origin and institutions of that nation and people from whom we are proud to derive our own. Our language, our popular instructions, and notions of freedom, of constitutional government, are all derived from our English ancestors. Our own frame work of popular government is but a new edition, revised and improved, of that of England, with this difference :T heirs has required the gradual development of centuries, while our own has sprung at once; with only a brief colonial infancy, into a full vigor of maturity. Besides, the interest which attaches to the history of English institutions, is, to some extent, the histor of the origin of our own ;the events of the past two centuries connected with both countries have been to such a degree interwoven with each other, that a knowledge of the one is indispensable to a proper acquaintance with the other. The gradual development of the A ngolo Saxon race, making with unmistakable pecularities each of the various offshoots from the parent stem, and no less surely than their common English language, present a study of importance and interest to American youth, hardly exceeded even by that of his kindred in the Fatherland of O
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333685416
• ISBN 13: 9781333685416
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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