The Christian Remembrancer 1858 Vol 35 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 37: A Quarterly Review; January-June, 1859 Malmesbury The names genuine English ones, the achievements related are even now our boast, and yet the gene ral elements of the characters of the men who performed them would seem about as strange and grot us, could we look at them in another setting than the history 0 the land in which we dwell, as those of the Magyar or the Russian. The histories themselves, while professing to be sober narratives, are, as to their details, rather of the nature of poems. They are full, from beginning to end, from the stories of their writers' forefathers, which might have pleaded for their marvellousness the impene trable mists of an intervening century of barbarism and conquest, down to accounts of the doings of which they might have been themselves witnesses, of oozing of blood from the soil, and from the walls of abbeys sacrilegiously converted into fortresses; of omens of pestilence and war, discovered in the battles of birds, and meteors trailing through the skies; of the plundering of churches, universal pillage of cities, martyrdoms, interdicts, and incestuous adulteries. From beginning to end, they are as rich in the struggles of warriors, and kings, and archbishops, as a book of the Iliad. Lawlessness is the rule, and not the exception; and the minority never seem to have accepted the princxple of our race, - the dutsy of obedience to the will of the majority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.