Excerpt from The Study of Modern History in London: A Lecture Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall, January 31, 1854
I have mentioned all these modes that they may serve as landmarks for your reading, if any of you are SO disposed. I mention them all with the general advice, which the mention of them of itself involves, Take care of the great events, and the little ones will take care of themselves.
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