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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Napoleonic StudiesThe letter of Nelson, printed at the beginning of Note I, has not been published before. I am deeply obliged to Miss F. Jarvis for permission to print the two new letters of Major Gorrequer from St. Helena.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1900, Vol. 2 of 2Still more important was it to bring about complete ac cord between the three Empires. Here again the red spectre proved to be useful. Various signs seemed to point to socialism as the common enemy Of them all. The doctrines Of Bakunin, Herzen, and Lassalle had already begun to work threateningly in their midst, and Bismarck discreetly used this communitv Of interest i...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Nationality in Modern HistoryAt present, however, we are confronted. By Nation ality of the Old type and to pass it by with sneers as to its being antiquated does not further the inter national cause. A careful study of past and present conditions is the first requisite for success in the construction Of the healthler European polity which ought to emerge from the present con¿ict, and criticisms of German Socialists such as will b...

Excerpt from The Development of the European Nations, Vol. 1 of 2: 1870-1900Now, it is true that these two forces have not led up to the last and crowning phase of human development, as their enthusiastic champions at one time asserted that they would, far from that, they are accountable, especially so the force of Nationality, for numerous defects in the life of the several peoples, and the national principle is at this very time producing gr...

Excerpt from William Pitt and the Great WarA constitution is the property of a nation and not of those who exercise the Government - T. Paine, Rig/11s of Man, part ii.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preser...

Excerpt from William Pitt and National RevivalThe speculations enshrined in the Social Contract of Rousseau and the teachings of the Encyclopaedists contained much that was crude, or even false. Nevertheless, they gave an impulse such as no age ever had known, and none perhaps ever will know again. The course of the American War of Independence and the foundation of a State based on distinctly democratic principles proved that the new doctrine...

Excerpt from Lord Hood and the Defence of ToulonThe events at Toulon in 1793 have often been described from the side of Bonaparte, whose career they so brilliantly inaugurated. But they have not been recounted adequately from the standpoint of the defenders. To do so, especially as regards Lord Hood and the British naval forces, is the purpose of this volume, which aims at exhibiting the defence of Toulon as an outcome of British policy in the...

Excerpt from The Origins of the War: Lectures Delivered in the Michaelmas Term, 1914German writers often assert that the British Empire is the result of the conscious and persistent efiort' of our people towards the achievement-oi world-empire. We, on our part, believe that Germany has in recent times adopted a world-policy which, almost of necessity, has brought her into con¿ict with the British race. Which of the two peoples has of late been...

Excerpt from How the War Came About: Explained to the Young People of All English-Speaking CountriesIN this little book I have sought to tell simply and shortly the 'story of a great and complex ci'lsls. It deeply concerns the Continental peoples and also our own people. Therefore, I have explained how we acted in time past when a somewhat similar crisis was at hand. But now the cause is greater and nobler than it was even in the days of Queen...

Excerpt from How the War Came About: Explained to the Young People of All English-Speaking CountriesIN this little book I have sought to tell simply and shortly the 'story of a great and complex ci'lsls. It deeply concerns the Continental peoples and also our own people. Therefore, I have explained how we acted in time past when a somewhat similar crisis was at hand. But now the cause is greater and nobler than it was even in the days of Queen...

Excerpt from The Rise of DemocracyAny inquiry into the course of democratic progress in England would be confessedly ¿imsy and superficial which did not endeavour, however brie¿y, to indicate the nature of the movement in its earlier stages. Is English democracy of home growth, or does it owe its chief impulse to the cognate movement in France? Was it propelled onwards by a conscious striving after new ideals, or was it merely the result of di...

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