H T Buckle: 3 books
by H. T. Buckle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
English historian Henry Thomas Buckle’s (1821–62) plan was to write a fourteen-volume history of civilisation, putting historiography on a more scientific basis, comparing and contrasting the intellectual, political, religious and social histories of certain nations. Unfortunately, his death at...
by H. T. Buckle
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
“Have you read Buckle's second volume? It has interested me greatly; I do not care whether his views are right or wrong, but I should think they contained much truth. There is a noble love of advancement and truth throughout, and to my taste he is the very best writer of the English language that...
SPANISH INTELLECT
From the Fifth to the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
It is in the history of Spain and of Scotland that he [Buckle] now seeks illustrations of these cardinal propositions. Spain and Scotland exemplify more palpably than any other modern peoples the baleful action of the protective spirit of Church and State; and the use to which he turns the history...