A course of English reading,adapted to every taste and capacity; with anecdotes of men of genius - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...Philadelphia. ciples, and preserved the kernel without the husk; but candidates for honours must prove that they know principles, which they can only do by having facta available and ready at command. An examination isconducted by papers of questions which serve as pegs on which to hang your knowledge; but should you confuse merely the names of historical characters, you will lose the chance of displaying your attainments, although your mind is stored, with the deepest reflections on the Roman policy or conslitution. The first thing, therefore, to consider is that you can never be said effectually to know any more history than you can accurately write out, with time, place, and circumstance. Read, therefore, on the method before described, which I shall call the expansive principle. Begin with committing to memory an outline--then fill m as fast and no faster than you can make good your ground. In this way you will always be ready to be examined to the exient of your reading, and will rear such an historical edifice as will admit of continual addition and enlargement without any part of your work being pulled down and wasted. This advice is more simple than obvious. I have known marry a student read for sixteen University terms, and collect materials which were at no single moment, from first to last, in a state to be put together, even supposing that the disorder of his mental store-room did not render it impossible to find or identify the many separate pieces he had laboriously collected. Your first book should be " The Outline of the Roman History,"3 by the Christian Knowledge Society. This little book, insignificant as it may seem, is not to be despised. It traces the Romans as they gradually spread from a corner of Italy over nearly all the k...
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