The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) - James Anthony Froude

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)

von James Anthony Froude

  • Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1894-10-20
  • Genre: Europäische Geschichte

Beschreibung

In periods like the present when knowledge is every day extending and the habits and thoughts of mankind are perpetually changing under the influence of new discoveries it is no easy matter to throw ourselves back into a time in which for centuries the European world grew upon a single type in which the forms of the father's thoughts were the forms of the son's and the late descendant was occupied in treading into paths the footprints of his distant ancestors.