Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page xii
... past , little or nothing of it has contributed to an awareness of the broad sweep of the nation's past and , therefore , present - in those on whom in a democracy national policy depends . And though there are several excellent modern ...
... past , little or nothing of it has contributed to an awareness of the broad sweep of the nation's past and , therefore , present - in those on whom in a democracy national policy depends . And though there are several excellent modern ...
Page xiii
... past that it becomes a complete , and therefore true , vision of man's evolution in time : ' the nations , Their markets , tillage , courts of jurisdiction , marriages , Feasts and assemblies , navies , armies , Priests and sabbaths ...
... past that it becomes a complete , and therefore true , vision of man's evolution in time : ' the nations , Their markets , tillage , courts of jurisdiction , marriages , Feasts and assemblies , navies , armies , Priests and sabbaths ...
Page xvi
... past ; he cannot do the second until he has done the first . The key to the writing and teaching of history is to make the past seem as real as it was to those experiencing it . Set in a Silver Sea , the first of my three volumes ...
... past ; he cannot do the second until he has done the first . The key to the writing and teaching of history is to make the past seem as real as it was to those experiencing it . Set in a Silver Sea , the first of my three volumes ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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