Author: William Hudson Shaw

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781331566670

Excerpt from Introductory Lectures on the Oxford Reformers: Colet, Erasmus and More; Delivered in Philadelphia, in 1893, Under the Auspices of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching For, in the first place, all three of them were good men as well as great, One hears it said often enough that history is chiefly a record of crimes and cruel deeds, of tyrannies and rebellions, of falseness and turpitude; and that the more deeply read people are in the life of the past the less belief they have in mankind. Certam if the moral sense has not been dulled by hard experience of evil, if the conscience is still sensitive and delicate, there is pain enough in human records. A life like Henry VIII. 3, or Pope Alexander VI. 's, or Charles II. S, a book like Machiavelli's Prince, ' a self-revelation like the autobiography of benvenutojohn colet. 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.