Lectures on European HistoryLongmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 424 pàgines |
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Pàgina 404 - ... has not answered exactly to the title "; " whilst we have given a good deal of attention to the drum and trumpet part of the story we have been obliged rather to cut short the political commentary " (p. 386). These three parts Bishop Stubbs regarded as three acts "of a great series ", with " two distinct ideas in progress which may be regarded as giving a unity to the long period. The Reformation is one, the claims of the house of Hapsburg the other. On the whole, the history of the house of...
Pàgina 2 - ... the king into unconstitutional proceedings, and then made these the pretext for overthrowing the monarchy. His predilections for periods are as outspoken as those for countries and parties. The sixteenth century is placed far below the thirteenth, as a century of ideas, real, grand, and numerous. ' Compare the one set of men with the other as men, and the ideas as ideas ; and the advantage is wonderfully in favour of the semi-barbarous age, above that of the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Pàgina 242 - ... 1866 is denounced as immeasurVol. 202 —No. 402. D ably falser, immeasurably more dishonest than that of Charles V. Again, it would not be difficult to identify the actual modern statesman to whom Henry IV is compared in the following description of the French king's opportunist conscience : — 'Like the statesman of the present day, he had not the slightest difficulty in training his conscience to believe that the course most expedient for him at the moment was the one which his higher nature...
Pàgina 137 - What is the meaning of Chivalry? Is it not the gloss put by fine manners on vice and selfishness and contempt for the rights of man?" All this, and much more, may be read in Professor FJC Hearnshaw's essay on Chivalry and its Place in History, I the thirty-three pages of which provide a useful collection of accurate facts, tempered with sympathetic and judicious reflections.1 His last two pages are especially...
Pàgina 241 - ... scarcely a good word for France. Germany, whether represented by a Habsburg or not, by Catholic or Protestant, is hailed as England's natural and immemorial ally against France. Dr Stubbs saw in the France of his own day the heiress of monarchical vices in a degraded form. Henry IV is described as a Frenchman of the old regime, ' without the debasement and ensavagement that successive struggles of blood and glory have produced in the Frenchman of the ordinary type of to-day.
Pàgina 66 - ... the change is a very wonderful and historically a most important one. The accumulation at one point of time of so many various influences in one direction ; the contemporaneous fruitbearing of a quantity of growths that had been advancing with no mutual acquaintance for ages ; the co-operation in the same work of the mistakes and vices of Popes ; the lusts, avarices, and ambitions of princes ; the learning of the one side, and the ignorance of the other : the almost accidental appearance of some...
Pàgina 73 - In the middle of the 15th century, Alfonso of Aragon had got possession of the mainland as well as of the island, and henceforth the Angevin kings, of whom Rene, father of our Queen Margaret of Anjou, is the best known to us, had been titular only. Alfonso had left Naples to an illegitimate son: Sicily and Aragon going to his brother, John, father of Ferdinand the Catholic. The illegitimate dynasty was ruined by Charles VIII's invasion of Italy, one object of which was to vindicate his right to Naples,...
Pàgina 330 - Such was this great captain, and such was the fate on which the conqueror rushed. It is quite certain that the mighty genius of Napoleon was of the highest order; he was one of the greatest masters of the art of war; he is to be ranked among the generals of the highest class, if indeed there be any but Hannibal who can be placed on a level with him. To all the qualities, both in the council and in the field, which combine to form an accomplished commander, he added, what but few indeed have ever...
Pàgina 96 - ... he is famous, the general air of chivalry which, like our Edward III. — a prince whom he strongly resembles in everything except power and success — he tried to throw over his dishonourable and abandoned life ; not one of these, nor all of them together, serves to do more than gild his infamy. All that is bad about him is too substantial and effective ; all that seems good or noble is sham, and a sorry sham, a very ragged covering to the mismanagement, misrule, and tyranny that make him the...
Pàgina 242 - Taking the disagreeable parts of the character first, we must allow that there was a want of fixed principle in him : he was not the man to be the martyr of any cause, and, like the statesman of the present day, he had not the slightest difficulty in training his conscience to believe that the course most expedient for him at the moment was the one which his higher nature recommended to him, which the development of his own views showed him to be the right, nay, which, under a different form, was...