 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1843 - 694 páginas
...farther task to execute. Men were gradually and slowly prepared by many, often unforeseen, circumstances, for the great transformation of the sixteenth century, so that the human mind was so far ripe for emancipation at the moment when the hour of its deliverance struck. The historian having... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1844 - 482 páginas
...has a further office to perform: — God acts by second causes. Many circumstances, which have often escaped observation. gradually prepared men for the...investigate the secondary causes which contributed to hring about the revolution we have undertaken to describe. Many will, perhaps, be slower of comprehension,... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1844 - 412 páginas
...office to perform — * Preface, p. iv. God acts by second causes. Many circumstances, which have often escaped observation, gradually prepared men for the...ripe when the hour of its emancipation arrived."* Now, we have given no little attention to the subject, and we claim at least as much impartiality as... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1847 - 436 páginas
...circumstances which have often passed unnoticed, gradually prepared" the world for the great transiormation of the sixteenth century, so that the human mind was ripe when the hour of its emancipation arrived. PREFACE. 19 It is the historian's duty to combine these two great elements in the picture he presents... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1849 - 448 páginas
...for the historian. Many circumstances which have often passed unnoticed, gradually prepared the world for the great transformation of the sixteenth century,...that the human mind was ripe when the hour of its emancipa'rrived. It is the historian's duty to combine these two great elements in the picture he presents... | |
 | Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné - 1851 - 716 páginas
...for the historian. Many circumstances which have often passed unnoticed, gradually prepared the world for the great transformation of the sixteenth century, so that the human mini was ripe when the hoar of its émancipation arrived. I* is the historian's duty to combine these... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1860 - 508 páginas
...has a further office to perform — God acts by second causes. Many circumstances, which have often escaped observation, gradually prepared men for the...human mind was ripe when the hour of its emancipation arrived."f Now, we have given no little attention to the subject, and we claim at least as much impartiality... | |
 | 1840 - 572 páginas
...has a further office to perform : — God acts by second causes. Many circumstances, which have often escaped observation, gradually prepared men for the...was ripe when the hour of its emancipation arrived" (pp. vii. viii.). This last-quoted remark contains more perhaps than was in the mind of the author... | |
 | J. H. D'Aubigne - 1997 - 1494 páginas
...for the historian. Many circumstances which have often passed unnoticed, gradually prepared the world D V9 + f ;\@ 7> & 0+Nt7 z { ]5g1 u C ... SUQ \ x * 2,* R ta*Ș 3 * ] & 9b1 ;C 2 It is the historian's duty to combine these two great elements in the picture he presents to his readers.... | |
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... was the work of Omnipotence. An impartial and attentive observer, who looks beyond the surface, must necessarily be led to this conclusion. But as God works by second causes, another task remains for the historian. Many circumstances which have often... 